How Will Humanity Change When All Our Thoughts Can Be Read By Others?
Today, scientists boast about new technologies that can read human thoughts and express them through synthetic speech or written text. Some envision a future where one machine links us all, merging our thoughts into a single common network, a so-called “mass consciousness.” To many, however, this sounds like a dystopian nightmare where free will and individuality reach their end.
Yet, we are already deep in this process. The media, social platforms, and cultural currents shape us far more than we realize. We live under constant influence, only that now it is still crude, noisy, and fragmented. Soon, it will be seamless and quiet. People will sit silently, their eyes glued to screens, and they will call it “thinking.” But they will not be thinking. The machine will be thinking for them.
You might say, “But I need to feel that I exist, that I made a decision.” Do not worry. That illusion will also be provided. You will feel like you chose, even when you did not. We will find that we can receive an implant that gives us a sense of us not even existing. Anything can be done to us. Life, as we currently experience it, is one long, tragicomic illusion.
So what is our “self”?
The “self” is not what we were born with. There is no independent “self” in our nature. What we call “I” or “me” is merely a bundle of desires and instincts that the ego controls and that the environment influences. The true “self” begins when we rise above this nature, when we acquire a spark of nature’s very own quality of bestowal within.
This spark cannot be generated by technology, nor by isolation. It is born only in connection. Connection is thus the key. Individuality is not in separation from others, but in conscious unity, or in other words, we do not lose ourselves in a collective, but discover our higher self through love of others.
That is why the great rule of Kabbalah is “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It is not some moral nicety. It is rather the method by which we connect to the upper system, the eternal field of intelligence, love, and purpose that governs reality. When we connect in an optimal manner, we gain access to this system. We begin to govern our lives consciously. As it is written, “My sons have defeated Me,” which means that those who reach a state of spiritual connection attain a state higher than the concealment of the positive force of love and bestowal that dwells in nature.
This is the path to the true “self.” Until then, we are under control. We are puppets, and we do not even know it. So what should we do?
We should begin with connection. That is, inner efforts to rise above our egoistic nature, and to do so together. Can egoists relate kindly to each other? No. That is precisely the point. We try, and fail, and try again. Through this common recognition of our inability to connect, we begin to ask: “Who are we? Why are we like this?”
Then, we reach a request, a sincere plea. We cry out for change in ourselves.
This is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah, to attract the positive force in nature that can change us. We cannot change ourselves, but we can want to change, and we can ask.
When the request is genuine, the answer, the light, and the higher force come and operate on us.
Then, gradually, we see a new world, one that our ego does not distort. It is a world that was always there but hidden behind our self-centered perception. We begin to see it in the light of bestowal. Such is the transformation of perception that we can undergo.
That is where the true “self” lives, in the awakened heart that chooses love over the ego’s sense of control, and unity over separation.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on March 26, 2025. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Today, scientists boast about new technologies that can read human thoughts and express them through synthetic speech or written text. Some envision a future where one machine links us all, merging our thoughts into a single common network, a so-called “mass consciousness.” To many, however, this sounds like a dystopian nightmare where free will and individuality reach their end.
Yet, we are already deep in this process. The media, social platforms, and cultural currents shape us far more than we realize. We live under constant influence, only that now it is still crude, noisy, and fragmented. Soon, it will be seamless and quiet. People will sit silently, their eyes glued to screens, and they will call it “thinking.” But they will not be thinking. The machine will be thinking for them.
You might say, “But I need to feel that I exist, that I made a decision.” Do not worry. That illusion will also be provided. You will feel like you chose, even when you did not. We will find that we can receive an implant that gives us a sense of us not even existing. Anything can be done to us. Life, as we currently experience it, is one long, tragicomic illusion.
So what is our “self”?
The “self” is not what we were born with. There is no independent “self” in our nature. What we call “I” or “me” is merely a bundle of desires and instincts that the ego controls and that the environment influences. The true “self” begins when we rise above this nature, when we acquire a spark of nature’s very own quality of bestowal within.
This spark cannot be generated by technology, nor by isolation. It is born only in connection. Connection is thus the key. Individuality is not in separation from others, but in conscious unity, or in other words, we do not lose ourselves in a collective, but discover our higher self through love of others.
That is why the great rule of Kabbalah is “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It is not some moral nicety. It is rather the method by which we connect to the upper system, the eternal field of intelligence, love, and purpose that governs reality. When we connect in an optimal manner, we gain access to this system. We begin to govern our lives consciously. As it is written, “My sons have defeated Me,” which means that those who reach a state of spiritual connection attain a state higher than the concealment of the positive force of love and bestowal that dwells in nature.
This is the path to the true “self.” Until then, we are under control. We are puppets, and we do not even know it. So what should we do?
We should begin with connection. That is, inner efforts to rise above our egoistic nature, and to do so together. Can egoists relate kindly to each other? No. That is precisely the point. We try, and fail, and try again. Through this common recognition of our inability to connect, we begin to ask: “Who are we? Why are we like this?”
Then, we reach a request, a sincere plea. We cry out for change in ourselves.
This is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah, to attract the positive force in nature that can change us. We cannot change ourselves, but we can want to change, and we can ask.
When the request is genuine, the answer, the light, and the higher force come and operate on us.
Then, gradually, we see a new world, one that our ego does not distort. It is a world that was always there but hidden behind our self-centered perception. We begin to see it in the light of bestowal. Such is the transformation of perception that we can undergo.
That is where the true “self” lives, in the awakened heart that chooses love over the ego’s sense of control, and unity over separation.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on March 26, 2025. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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