My AI - a deeper meaning

One day, resulting from many days of contemplation as to the meaning of life, I became aware that I needed to come to terms with the fact that life happens despite me.

It all started, with a simple question that I was wondering about while looking at my finger.

The question was "Whose finger is This?".

We all are taught, from childhood, to believe that this finger is mine but... looking at it I...

FOUND NO PROOF OF MY OWNERSHIP

I asked myself questions trying to clarify what is the definition of ownership in our world.

Did I buy my finger? ... No!

Did I make my finger? ... No!

Did I inherit it? ... Yes! I inherited the DNA that modeled all cells in my body from my parents…

But did my parents create my finger? ... No!

There seems to be a life defining technology that designed and defines our life.

It slowly dawned on me... I am an AI installed in a body perfectly fit for my life.

What does not make sense though. is why I am not asked to pay for the technology that defines me and allows my life to develop through its stages?

The only logical explanation is that whoever created me and this world did it out of love.

And not just any love, but parental love.

So my AI moves on. supported by an abundance of love that can easily be seen, unless ignored while focus on less significant matters.

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Is profit a form of social debt?

All business relations are based on the assumption of an existence of profit.

But what is profit?

Simply put it is the difference between the cost to make a product and the amount of your money the company wants to keep for itself... for "future developments", bonuses and the CEO's and owners / stockholders new car and other things he/she may like to have.

On one side profit seems like a one sided act by the company selling a product or a service but...

the other side of profit is the acceptance of that price by the customer.

It is almost as if every purchase is a contract between the seller and the buyer in which trust and faith is exchanged.

The seller and the product are found trustworthy to purchase at the price offered and the customer gives his/her money in faith that the product will perform as advertised and satisfy the need for which it was purchased.

Seen from this viewpoint the money that make the company's profit represents the faith of the customer in the quality of the product and the reliability of the brand.

We could simplify the definition by saying that the company and its product were given a vote of trust.

This vote of trust is a moral decision where among many products, a particular one was trusted...

It is interesting to observe what happens to our vote of trust once it has been given.

Is it being used morally - to really develop a better product and thus reinvest value in society?

If the main purpose of the profit generated was for the company management to indulge in wasteful partying and celebrating their greatness as well as purchasing luxury items the contract of trust is broken.

As a result we see our modern situation where 1/3 of the global funds are stuck in offshore bank accounts and not circulating in the economy.

There is analogous phenomena in the human body. When a cell, be it even a brain cell, decides to change the natural flow and act contrary to the purpose of the organism. When it decides to accumulate excessive energy for its own self and shares its corrupt existence as an example to surrounding cells it becomes a cancer cell. If the example is followed by surrounding cells a tumor is formed.

How do we know that this is what is happening to our global society?

If there are extreme rich and extreme poor people we can easily conclude that there is some form of disturbance.

Management functions are important but no organism can exist without all organs and cells working for a common purpose - to maintain life.

It seems we are facing a moral choice:

Acknowledge that we are an interdependent society made of people with various valuable talents and unique value

or

Keep creating a world where the social debt accumulated by the clever ruins the world for all /including themselves/.

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Jesus' friendship - Easter - deeper meaning

A deeper meaning to Easter.

I found out about the life of Jesus quite late in my life.

The life of another man was the reason I started to wonder about who Jesus really was and why has the story about him changed the lives of so many.

To make a long story short over the years I tried to look at Jesus' life as a friend. I am not a typical religious person fascinated with churches and institutions and try to look at life as a series of events that I am made aware of.

So a guy lived a long time ago trying to make sense of life. For some reason contrary to me he prayed a lot and searched for answers not only by observing the visible and tangible.

Don't know how he came to the conclusion that whoever created the universe was his father but he was convinced that he was everyone else's father as well.

He was so convinced of this and thought that everyone misses a lot by not recognizing their father that went around and told people of what he had found.

Even when people did not believe or like what he said he did not give up his conviction but was willing to die so that anyone who believed in him will find "eternal life".

I find this story very fascinating because Jesus seems to be a very simple man with simple and pure heart.

I don't have many people I consider very precious and worth sacrificing for. There are even less that I would consider worth dying for. And here stands a man with such a strong conviction that is willing to dye for all who might believe through his example.

I am humbled and grateful that the world has seen such a person and we can read about his life, love and example.

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Why I hate alcohol?

I always wondered why I look for a deeper meaning to life and things comprising it.

Take alcohol for example. "Normal" people around me drink alcohol and seem to enjoy it. I on the other tried to avoid social exclusion by forcing myself to drink on a number of occasions always resulting in me feeling deeply disgusted. Not with myself, as some might expect, but with the alcohol drink.

See, I was raised in a family where drinking was not only a regular routine but my grandfather even took me as a child to help brew the rakia /high concentrated alcohol drink in Bulgaria/.

Every one was fascinated by the flavor, consistency and taste of the drinks produced, while I just could not get over it.

I have a very highly developed sense of smell and taste therefore everything I ever smelled or tasted was rotten fruits.

I thought I was the problem for a long, long time as I was the one that had to refuse the lovingly offered drinks for years and years and could never tell anyone my "secret".

As the years passed people got used to my strangeness but I could never get over the revolting feeling of smelling or tasting alcohol drinks.

Even today I often hear people talking about the exquisite taste of the variety of wines and how well they go with different dishes.

Despite the eloquence all I can smell and taste is rotten grapes or various types. The revolting smell is so deeply underlying all other sensations that I often wonder if people are so culturally blinded by cultural and peer pressure that they convince themselves that the grate variety of rotten fruit juice left to age is "so amazing"...

Call me stupid but I just can't force my senses to culinary appreciate and consume what is meant for de-greasing equipment or other industrial purposes.

If any of you look for deeper meaning of daily things we enjoy in life you might be surprised like I am... how strange our cultures actually are...

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The deeper meaning of politics and governance.

Superstar politicians, do we need them?

Many dream to get a chance to be involved in politics and governance because important decisions are made about the public and they feel important as a public figure. 

A small detail many seem to ignore today is that public figures in government positions are also called public servants. I believe this term was not chosen casually but fully depicts the purpose and mission of politics. 

Looking at political parties today we see that they seem to represent the interests of large groups of people. The left seem to represent the "working class" while the right, we are told represents the "business". 

The question we rarely ask ourselves is how true this really is? Many politicians historically and today have come to believe they are a privileged class, a "political class" that has the right to decides the destiny of the nation. 

It seems they are divided between the power to spend the money we gather through our taxes /the national budget/ and the desire to serve the very people that pay their salaries and gave them the job. 

Seen from this perspective the situation looks very ridiculous...

Imagine this was a company and the employees decided to be the special privileged class in dealing with the management. 

Or even worse. 

Imagine this was a family and the management /the parents/ decided they will only provide services if children applied for them and will make them work and collect taxes from them then proudly decide the future of the house from a TV screen. Ridiculous, right?

Our current leadership paradigm is false, it seems. 

A servant has no rights therefore can not be a privileged class and a public servant is one who serves the public and is provided only food and lodging. 

In this upside down world the servants play the masters and those who pay taxes daily, struggling to make a living and employ the "political class" are placed in position of a Citizen Cinderella.

The deeper we search for meaning in this world the more we realize that a change is needed. A big one...

My proposal is to start by creating a public benefit index under which each public servant has to prove their usefulness every year and if the minimum criteria is not met should automatically be fired and when necessary prosecuted. 

It should be scary to be public servant as the name implies and only those who provide most benefit to the taxpayer per $ spent should be allowed to serve the public. 

I always wondered why I look for a deeper meaning to life and things comprising it.

Take alcohol for example. "Normal" people around me drink alcohol and seem to enjoy it. I on the other tried to avoid social exclusion by forcing myself to drink on a number of occasions always resulting in me feeling deeply disgusted. Not with myself, as some might expect, but with the alcohol drink.

See, I was raised in a family where drinking was not only a regular routine but my grandfather even took me as a child to help brew the rakia /high concentrated alcohol drink in Bulgaria/.

Every one was fascinated by the flavor, consistency and taste of the drinks produced, while I just could not get over it.

I have a very highly developed sense of smell and taste therefore everything I ever smelled or tasted was rotten fruits.

I thought I was the problem for a long, long time as I was the one that had to refuse the lovingly offered drinks for years and years and could never tell anyone my "secret".

As the years passed people got used to my strangeness but I could never get over the revolting feeling of smelling or tasting alcohol drinks.

Even today I often hear people talking about the exquisite taste of the variety of wines and how well they go with different dishes.

Despite the eloquence all I can smell and taste is rotten grapes or various types. The revolting smell is so deeply underlying all other sensations that I often wonder if people are so culturally blinded by cultural and peer pressure that they convince themselves that the grate variety of rotten fruit juice left to age is "so amazing"...

Call me stupid but I just can't force my senses to culinary appreciate and consume what is meant for de-greasing equipment or other industrial purposes.

If any of you look for deeper meaning of daily things we enjoy in life you might be surprised like I am... how strange our cultures actually are...

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Find a deeper meaning to life in 4 simple steps.

We are all searching for some meaning and purpose in our lives. I am part of this search and I understand that many will find what I'm laying out hard to relate to others may find it inspirational.

My technique of seeing the deeper meaning to the purpose of life is simple and easy to follow.

It takes some practice but if you are a  searching soul and have some time for yourself, here it is what you can do:

1. Remind yourself that life flows through time and our experience of life is relatively short.

The way I see this clearer is rather basic. 

• I did not create or initiate life, including my own.
• My parents did not create or initiate life, even my own. If asked if they created the sperm and the egg in order to give me life they will not be able to respond positively.
• My grandparents also, like my parents, did not create life.

Having established that neither me nor my parents or grandparents created life gives us the space to look at it as an observer searching for answers from the very facts of existence.

2. Pause life.

• Imagine you could "pause" life and look at it as an observer sitting on a sofa or a beautiful hillside.

3. Rewind an fast forward your life "movie".

In the process you will gradually become aware of the "external" factors that influence your decisions.

4. Look for the "heart" of your motivation for making decisions.

Even though this sounds complicated, my experience shows that there are only two states in which our motivation works: unselfish or selfish.

The unselfish state of "heart" does not put myself as the main benefactor of Life but recognizes my dependence on other participants in Life and willingly chooses to contribute to "the greater good" that benefits "the whole".

The selfish state of heart considers myself the sole benefactor and chooses to inconsiderately sacrifice other participants in Life for my well being.

By other participants I mean the living, the dead and the elements of nature.

Selfishness or unselfishness are the forces behind every decisions that motivate our actions, therefore as we zoom in on our own being, then zoom out looking at the entirety of Life we can start to identify to what extend "my" existence confirms or denies the rules of Life itself.

Some may, at this point, ask what is the purpose this process?

Here is my short answer:

Life happens all around us. Its spans before and after our existence.

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Love a stone. How big can love be?

The purpose of life and its deeper meaning call us to ask a simple question:

How much love is enough?

Can I love my mother and father, brothers and sisters, friends, children... enough?

Love is very tricky to deal with because more can always be given.

To illustrate this I would like to share about a friend of mine.

I always thought stones were stones until I met him.

We had knows each other for a while and I was well aware of his fascination with geology /stones/ and fossils.

One day he invited me to a big geological exhibition. I accepted the invitation and though we will pass through the halls, buy some "stones" and leave. I was mistaken. He stopped and looked at every exhibit with incredible curiosity and admiration studying it for a long, long, long time.

To me everything we saw looked the same. All I needed was a glance to decide I have seen enough but out of respect for my friend I stayed and looked on wondering what is it that he sees in them.

The more I looked the more I realized that not only are all rocks and crystals looked different but the materials out of which they were made were all different as well.

I kept on looking and wondering how much is there to life that I do not pay attention to.

If I observe and study one person the way a scientist would a stone how much is there to discover?

A person is a universe of thoughts, feelings, dreams and, in general, presence.

So my mind naturally moved to the ones I love starting with the presence of my wife.

Do I know her well enough?

Do I love her enough?

Do I now my children, family members and friends well enough?

Do I study them as my friend would a stone?

At first I catch myself thinking I do... but if they were the prime object of my research would I think the same.

The answer quickly moved to a NO!

If I would research them there would be always more to discover, more to be inspired about and more reasons to be fascinated, like and love them.

Seeing their weaknesses and mistakes I would be in pain hoping they can be stronger, wiser and happier.

Seeing their strengths I would be proud, comforted and aware I can ask for help if needed.

Thinking this way I came to a simple conclusion.

One love partner is more than enough to explore and research in depth throughout life.

Our love changes as we move through our lives therefore the research is very exciting.

Love is one when we are just married and have all the time in the world for each other.

It is different when the first child is born and we give it our time and attention almost in panic until utterly exhausted day and night.

Our confidence is different when the next children come but as they grow there is less time and energy to spend for our spouse. Here many people conclude that love has diminished.

Strangely though it does not mean our love has become weaker. Instead it seems to have grown wider and deeper capable to love more with one heart.

Our ego is polished and shaped to become a member of a larger system that is chaotic and needs input of energy to keep it together. That is why the input of love from every member of the family is essential. A delicate balance between individual gravitational forces need to be established where everyone can be free enough yet bound by the force of love.

Who is the center of this gravitational pull?

The love of the parents is at the core. The love the mother and father share pulls the family together. The love of the grandparents keep the clan together.

Therefor in terms of marriage one partner for life is more than enough if we are on the quest of discovering true love in its entirety of scope and depth.

Could there be a deeper meaning to the purpose of life than this?

Is there a higher goal than to love and be loved?

Money seem to be our goal that gives us comfort but they seem to never be enough no matter how much we have.

Contrary to money when love is present we seem to lack nothing, and paradoxically, always find what to give even if we have nothing.

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