{"id":6336,"date":"2019-06-16T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elisabeth-karsten.de\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2021-10-31T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T17:18:02","slug":"uniqueness-and-algorithms-do-not-harmonize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elisabeth-karsten.de\/en\/uniqueness-and-algorithms-do-not-harmonize\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniqueness and algorithms do not harmonize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who you are no online oracle can tell you. It depends entirely on your willingness to recognize yourself. Accordingly the Apollo temple situated where the famous Delphi oracle was had the inscription: Know thyself. Our uniqueness \u2013 what makes us specifically \u2013 can only be experienced from within, not from outside.<\/p>\n

Key question to self discovery<\/h2>\n

But the question, who we actually are, still drives us. And it is indeed one of the guiding questions<\/strong> on the path to enlightenment. For me enlightenment is the experience and recognition of the all transcending truth, that goes far beyond our own being and our alleged identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until you awaken into this awareness of being you are asleep in certain ways. This entails often mistaking reality and illusion, truth and claim and labels with content.<\/strong> Uniqueness does not fit into this. It is often actually considered menacing and isolating. But we do want to belong and therefore do our best, not to get out of line too much. This is appreciated.<\/p>\n

We are always labelled<\/h2>\n

All our lives others make an effort to tell us who we are. They categorize, judge and label us continuously.<\/strong> First our parents and families, then our teachers and fellow students, our bosses and colleagues, our states and organizations and now finally some random online logarithms!<\/p>\n

With increasing discontent and a certain boredom I\u00b4ve noticed that these oracle-games are booming<\/strong>. Somewhere in social media you get to click on some pseudo-wise question and then a lottery-like mechanism takes place and presto spits out the answer. The questions go somewhat like this. \u201cWhat does your guardian angel\/starsign\/birthday say bout you?\u201d \u201cIf you were a plant\/an animal\/a deity, you would be\u2026\u201d \u201cWhat heart\/colour\/timetype are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ego candy dims uniqueness<\/h2>\n

And you can play that again every day \u2013 and the answers will vary and of course it\u00b4s only different today, because you are not who you were yesterday. But the inconsistency of the answers has the effect of candy \u00a0that solely consists of sugar, artificial aroma and colour. Who you truly are is not to be learned this way. All players know this and yet it is this question that motivated them to play in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Furthermore all these programmed oracles are an ideal vehicle to collect electronic data. This also applies to all the psychological online tests. Whether we want to know if our boss is a narcissist, if we have an allergy against electro smog our leadership qualities. In this way all kinds of information is gathered about us. And an ever more detailed outline of our features, our habits and our needs<\/strong> is produced. For that makes us more reachable for customized advertising. And beyond that it refines the parameters for subversive actions \u2013 however the relevant guards define them.<\/p>\n

Leveling down instead of conscious uniqueness<\/h2>\n

Actually the exact opposite of what we\u00b4re aspiring for happens. Independently of how aware we are of our need to find out what makes us, what our personal uniqueness consists of specifically.<\/strong> The answer is to at least expand our own space for insights and stimulate it.<\/p>\n

But in truth this only a more refined way of leveling down. For the answers are limited.<\/strong> And the people who klick on to the same oracle accordingly receive similar answers. But they are\u2026different!<\/p>\n

Let\u00b4s play in a unique way<\/h2>\n

I like games too. And I also enjoy gaining new ideas thereby. Or receiving new emotional impulses. I also appreciate a surplus value of learning something. I\u00b4m a big fan of the language learning app Duolingo and the language and mindtraining programs.<\/p>\n

These also serve the data collection of course. But since this can\u2019t be avoided in playing online games, one could do it with a\u00a0 casual attitude and i.e. google children\u00b4s games, buying a revolver and doing taxes<\/strong> in one go\u2026 But I don\u00b4t want to digress further.<\/p>\n

Our uniqueness can only be felt and experienced<\/h2>\n

I\u00b4m currently obsessed with authenticity \u2013 what is our actual match in this very moment? The more you depart from the conditioned need for being \u201cnormal\u201d the more interesting and inspiring the answers become. Circling<\/a> for instance is a great way to explore this.<\/p>\n

Our wonderful mind is a very unsuitable tool to fathom our uniqueness. For it is inclined to compare, judge and classify.<\/strong> The mind usually acts according to the conditioning and imprints we\u00b4ve received throughout our life. These finally become a habit. We believe, it is our perception \u2013 but it is actually no more than an acquired pair of glasses through which we look.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Besides, the mind likes mistaking unique for being special. In the positive sense this is something sublime, in the negative it can be disqualifying. But your personal uniqueness is something natural<\/strong> and neither good, nor bad and sometimes even both. It depends on how you deal with it.<\/p>\n

Our uniqueness is our real treasure<\/h2>\n

We really should celebrate our uniqueness. In ourselves and in others. The more each of us expresses his potentials, the stronger all of us become!<\/strong> Therein lies a huge potential. For us individually, but also for humanity and all being in general!<\/p>\n

Only you can what you can do! Only I can, what I can do \u2013 when we connect miracles are possible. In order to not waste anymore time with online oracles, I\u00b4ve come up with a few ultimate answers\u2026<\/p>\n

If I were the oracle I would answer:<\/p>\n

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