Are We Just Computers?

Computer: a device that can store, retrieve, and process data.

When we listen to conversations or broadcasts, this seems to be the case. People hear or read something and repeat it; modern technology just mimics the limits of human behaviour.

As long as we don’t investigate our own mind and how it works, we are no better than recording machines. Observe how we perceive something, recall to memories for reference, and habitually react to type.

Meditation breaks us out of the machine,
and we’re no longer part of the contrivance.
That’s if we drop the meditation machinery.

Machine: from Greek mēkhos ‘contrivance’.