Ask Lewis: Zen And Artificial Intelligence

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uding Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram and there are descendants of these tools soon to come. These digital tools are miraculous and yet they can easily draw you away from true intimacy, a functional physical reality, and what is truly important to living your best life.</p><h2 id="f1e2">The Takeaway</h2><p id="567f">Technology has turned what is truly important into an abstraction. In the past, people often drew their sense of reality from what was necessary to survive, combined with some group reality. Over time, many things have now become simplified through consumer culture. This has contributed to the great illusion that technology has benefited man and mankind by making life less complex. Technology may have changed how you live your life, but not without a great cost.</p><p id="ccf5">©Lewis Harrison, all rights reserved.</p><h2 id="260e">Other of my stories in a similar vein @LewisCoaches…</h2><div id="2d5f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://thetaoist.online/ask-lewis-how-to-meditate-b8af2a933e57"> <div> <div> <h2>Ask Lewis: How to Meditate</h2> <div><h3>A simple explanation</h3></div> <div><p>thetaoist.online</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*S8uWCGICi_jrAq8o2xfhPw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="3d5b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/ask-lewis-the-zen-training-of-monkey-mind-10c29ec6ac9e"> <div> <div> <h2>Ask Lewis” The Zen Training of Monkey Mind</h2> <div><h3>Tips for becoming more mindful</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*S8uWCGICi_jrAq8o2xfhPw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="a9d4">Before you go…</h2><p id="f31d">I am Lewis Harrison, an award-winning author of over twenty books on personal growth and strategic thinking. For over a decade I was the producer and host of the show <i>“What’s Up”</i> on NPR-affiliated WIOX FM in New York.</p><p id="639f">Now, aside from writing on Medium, and connecting personally with my readers, I teach seminars and speak on personal development, and life strategies throughout the world.</p><h2 id="2e81">To learn more about my thread — Ask Lewis — please read this short piece below…</h2><div id="7fef" class="link-block"> <a href="https://lewiscoaches.medium.com/about-ask-lewis-0080d181e677">

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The ideas of Edward Tenner touch on this.

Many of us wonder about the benefits without recognizing the costs to us. The widespread success of various antibiotics has brought us drug-resistant strains of bacteria. Many high-tech medical procedures are beneficial because they create an environment for faster healing and less pain, but on the other hand, there may be post-surgical complications that did not arise in the previous “old fashioned” approaches. It was believed that the advent of the personal computer would provide great benefits with little negative effect.

Though personal computers have certainly increased productivity in many ways, they have also replaced one type of worker with new and different types of experts. This new environment often requires workers throughout society to discard their previous skills for those required to effectively use computers. All types of new medical problems have arisen from people sitting in chairs, repeating the same motion over and over, and staring at the computer screen. Back problems, hand and arm problems, and vision problems are the result of this new technology. Attention spans are shorter, and more is said online about less and less.

Achieving contentment will require more than technological advancement. It will require greater inner knowledge applied to digital technology. Meditation, the study of kōans, the creation of a Monastery of the Social Network, and other Wisdom practices are key for turning the digital into the post-digital, a place where innovative thinkers create digital tools to free us from has come to be a multicultural, digital monkey mind.

The Multicultural, Digital Monkey Mind

This is an exciting time. Our ways of thinking, of being, and relating to the world around us are now more than ever influenced by the merging of different national, religious, cultural, and digital communities. Because of this, meditation, introspection and contemplation are more important than ever. Meditation allows you to pull back from the illusion and reminds you that no choice can be made without consequences. In the 21st century, your core social life is likely to be defined and controlled by digital tools including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram and there are descendants of these tools soon to come. These digital tools are miraculous and yet they can easily draw you away from true intimacy, a functional physical reality, and what is truly important to living your best life.

The Takeaway

Technology has turned what is truly important into an abstraction. In the past, people often drew their sense of reality from what was necessary to survive, combined with some group reality. Over time, many things have now become simplified through consumer culture. This has contributed to the great illusion that technology has benefited man and mankind by making life less complex. Technology may have changed how you live your life, but not without a great cost.

Before you go…

I am Lewis Harrison, an award-winning author of over twenty books on personal growth and strategic thinking. For over a decade I was the producer and host of the show “What’s Up” on NPR-affiliated WIOX FM in New York.

Now, aside from writing on Medium, and connecting personally with my readers, I teach seminars and speak on personal development, and life strategies throughout the world.

Ask Lewis: Zen And Artificial Intelligence

The age of singularity

The ideas of Edward Tenner touch on this.

The Takeaway

Other of my stories in a similar vein @LewisCoaches…

Ask Lewis: How to Meditate

A simple explanation

Ask Lewis” The Zen Training of Monkey Mind

Tips for becoming more mindful

Before you go…

To learn more about my thread — Ask Lewis — please read this short piece below…

About “Ask Lewis”…

My information portal in some of the best Medium publications

As a subscriber to my newsletter, ensure you download my free eBook with action-packed tips to help you in your personal growth.

Ask Lewis Harrison - Problem Solving through Efficiency, Effectiveness, Precision, Self-Awareness…

Lewis Harrison-The RealUGuru-is an international best-selling author.He is recognized as a leading expert on…

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