Turning data into “information” depends on how someone chooses to classify the data.
And in the classification (which includes muddling and burying) of data – that’s where a lot of sorcery happens.
I find the contemplation of “data” to be interesting, disturbing, and mind-bogglingly complex – much more complex than that image of the expanding data pile that my husband (the BETTER and more humorous half of the Sunnyboy husband-wife duo) posted (because he likes to be facetious sometimes).
For example, what if one views every “Being” (which, in today’s technocratic materialistic world, seems to be regarded as a mere “data point”) as being a “Subject” of its own life (that is, a creative being), until it becomes rendered into an “Object” of use by something else? Everything in this world seems to become a data point in relation to something else. So, when one talks of “data garbage”, we’re talking about nuances around classification and contextual issues. Also, in today’s materialistic world, once a Being gets rendered into a “data point”, then there is the deep question about that Being’s soul --, and so, within the realm of data analytics (and hence AI which feeds on data systems), there’s a complete absence of spiritual consideration/contemplation for how we view anything that gets processed through such a system.
The phenomenon that I see happening is that all kinds of entities are compiling “data points” on living beings and “resources” (e.g., mineral, water, etc.) with a goal of altering their original purpose, and using them to serve other purposes. Subjects (including people) get turned into Objects. A lot of deception has to happen for this to come about, and so to do that, the context of how data is presented gets altered. When we see a data point presented in a different context, that affects our belief system regarding that entity, and thus our behaviour.
I think storytellers have been doing this for a long time, but the AI phenomenon is so utterly vast and rapid, and people are so tethered to their contraptions, that many peoples’ minds are being collectively altered as they see images and stories presented out of their true context.
I am very concerned about this, because data sorcery is so very powerful. We saw this during the covid fracas – images presented of people dropping in the streets, funeral caskets, suggestions that that would happen if people didn’t line up for shots. I am very concerned about how data gets manipulated and reframed in order to alter the (spiritual) purpose of the Subject which has been turned into a data point (i.e., into an Object of some entity’s interest).
