The illusion of a world with more than One is explored. In addition to the Augmented Hand Series, we look at how a machine ‘sees’ frequencies as something substantial because it is coded to envision that – like you recognise a world with more than One per the brain’s script.
Duality Hack #3.4 – reading time: 5 minutes
The Augmented Hand Series Flong by Golan Levin and Collaborators
In the Augmented Hand Series, you can watch your hand take on a life of its own. For example, your fingers grow to varying lengths.
You see it moving on a screen when you put your hand in a small box. However, it is not controlled by you but by a preprogrammed app. As in the image above, it changes the length of your fingers beyond your control.
Although these movements are impossible, it feels like your hand does them in the Augmented Hand Series box. Likewise, it seems there is a world with more than one when you are in the box called the brain. But it is impossible because oneness is formless, thus endless.
There is no world with more than One
In the still photo and the two animations from the article Watch an Experiment That Turns People’s Hands Into Creepy Visuals, the screen on top of the small box creates a disconnect between what you see your hand doing and what you know it does. Even though the hand on the screen is not part of you, it feels like it is. Some even look into the box to check if what they see on the screen happens to their hand.
Likewise, it feels like you are in a world with more than one. But there is no more than One. It only seems so because, metaphorically, you have put oneness in a small box, where an app called the brain twists it into a world with more than one. Fortunately, it is an illusion, so returning to oneness is not about leaving the virtual world but believing it exists. For example, by interpreting every experience of more than one as a symbol of oneness. That cancels out differences, thus separation, wherefore the belief in more than one falls apart.
There is no self
The belief in being an individual in charge of their life is comparable to a machine that thinks it has a self, deciding what to do. A machine has no ‘I’, self, or soul. It is all mechanics, and even if the device has AI (artificial intelligence), all the thought combinations it seems to create are preprogrammed associations. So, there is no ‘I’ seeing something. If you are visual-minded, you may get an Aha! Moment when you see the following illustrations from an article in Wired about how a machine sees the world by registering data or frequencies per its program.
The machine is programmed to perceive this frequency point as cute. Therefore, it searches its database for an image to illustrate that.
Then, the machine translates another frequency point as eyes and concludes it sees the cute image found in its database.
Based on past decisions, the machine reckons the cute image it sees is a dog.
But it also seems to see a human. So, it searches its database to determine if it is the human or the dog that is cute. Then, it locates the appropriate conceptualised feeling to symbolise it sees something cute.
The above captions are not from the article in Wired but by Alexius.
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