Humans being replaced by robots.

It’s a prediction that’s been made for a few decades. From the film screen to book pages and even art nowadays, robots will replace us. Replace and take over if you believe such omens as shown in The Terminator and I-Robot.

Whether you believe that forecast or not, one thing is for sure, robots are increasingly more active in our lives.

And with the advent of Artificial Intelligence, in the very near future the human mind is going to be more obsolete in use.

Well, that’s another prediction. But, we are already robotic in one way mentally.

You, me, pretty much everyone of us.

We all are robots in our mind so read on to find out how…and why!

Personally Programmed.

Robots, like computers, are programmed.

They have an operating system that runs software that contains their orders, the programme that defines their actions, which they stick to. We have developed the technology to programme robots to make, build, and manufacture and to make themselves in effect with robots creating robotic machines.

The robot simply follows the loaded programme instructions.

And that’s where we come in and turn into robots.

Our operating system is our mind. The one that runs our life with it’s physical brain loaded in our body to carry out the mental instructions. But, where does the mind get those instructions? Who sets the programme?

Well….we do.

Over our many years of life we continually gather a massive range of beliefs, views, information, insights, perceptions and (hopefully for most of us), wisdom. Now some of these come from direct experience – mistakes, regrets, successes, discipline, effort etc. But added to these are another whole range of outer influences – how we were raised, our environment, authority figures from teachers to family and more, from society, from the media, and , increasingly, from social media and the internet. We are easily influenced creatures.

We bank all of this mix mentally and it forms a type of rule book on how to approach life, behave, and be who we are. Like a recipe in a cookbook except ours is a lifebook.

Therefore, unlike robots, we are personally programmed. No other human carries the same programme inside them. Ours are unique to each of us and the mind, like the robot, obeys these rules and guidelines on life formed from what we put in there.

But that’s where it goes wrong.

Not because we are robots out of control, but BECAUASE we are human!

The Robot Mind.

Our robot minds get to work as soon as we wake up.

The moment our eyes open after sleep and our awareness kicks in, the mind also begins switching on. As it does so it flicks into operating mode and all those background beliefs and views etc that we hold (both bad and good) start to run the show.

When we get up and begin to move, the mind is immediately being powered by that underlying software. Our mind, effectively, is on automatic like an airplane on auto pilot. In fact that analogy is perhaps the most accurate way of explaining it. The captain has control and can override the pre-set auto pilot but often he doesn’t and let’s it do its job.

And guess what happens? The plane ends up where it has been programmed to be. Just like us.

Which is why we seem to lurch from one same issue to another.

We are pre-set to live, act, think etc in our mind that same way like a robot honouring its guidance system. Pre-set and pre-ordered by everything we hold in our mental file about ourselves and life. Our mind is our robot counterpart. The trouble is we aren’t aware that we are cerebral cyborgs who can change how we operate.

We contend that it’s fate or bad luck that keeps leading us down wrong roads and finding wrong people on the way.

It’s not, it’s our inner robot. Our personally constructed mind.

Less Robotic, More Human.

If you take a look you will see how you repeatedly think and react like a robot.

A always equal B say in relationships or X never fails to lead to Y in your finances. Work and career may start at point A but are never meant to progress passed point B. In short, you’ve decided most of your destiny in advance and programmed yourself like a robot to follow it through to the decided result.

Even if you SO believe you haven’t. YOU HAVE!

You are continually completing your programme. The one that kicks in as soon as the alarm goes off. The one that runs unconsciously on your behalf so that you barely notice how it’s conducting your life.

So, ask yourself when you get up what your expectations are for the day? What do you believe will happen to YOU? What money or love or even life itself will continue to deal you as a hand?

The robot in your mind has those answers and is directing you in every moment based on them. The ones you put in there in the first place. You need to re-write them by reconsidering what you believe about you and life. That will re-write your own self programming and update your mental instruction guide for life.

It’s time to be more human and less robot. To think and reflect and update what that person sees and believes. And to then upload the updated view (software) into your mind so a new life can initiated. Or a new destination in your life auto-pilot.

Robots may begin to take over the world, but don’t let yours take over your mind.

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