A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

Sure, that's consistent with what you earlier claimed so thank you for clarifying. Even so, I think you may be missing some of the nuances. This sort of discussion isn't only about "control" -- it is also about "interface". And that is where the individual view comes into play.

Focus again on the important dialog at the start of the documentary. Paraphrasing:

• we map what we think about the human nervous system by the highest level of technology of the day
• e.g., when the aqueducts were big, people thought that humors controlled the body and different liquids would come in and make you feel a different way
• later, when the telegraph came, we conceived them as nerve impulses that go down sort of like wires
• now, we conceive the brain as a computer because that's our highest level of technology

I read something similar years ago that has stuck with me my whole life. Roger von Oech wrote a book on the importance of being creative called, A Whack on the Side of the Head. He is a self-proclaimed "historian of ideas" and summarized the computer model of the mind this way (paraphrasing):

• -the models people use to understand mental processes reflect the technology of their time
• e.g., 17th c: people thought about the mind as a mirror or lens, and this "mirrored" the advances made then in the fields of optics and lens-making
• late 19th c and early 20th c: the Freudian model of mind "mirrored" the ubiquity of the steam engine locomotive. Ideas and thoughts billow up from the subconscious to the conscious in the same way steam moves from boiler to compression chamber
• early 20th c: the mind was viewed as a vast telephone switching network with circuits and relays running through the brain
• since the mid-20th c: we've had a new model of mind: the computer

His point? The computer model does a good job of describing certain aspects of our thinking. For example, we have "input" and "output" and "information-processing." There is also "feedback," "programming," and "storage." But he goes on to argue that the model itself misses the very thing it seeks to describe!

I believe that the mind is not only a computer that processes information, it's also a museum that stores experiences, a device that encodes holograms, a playground in which to play, a muscle to be strengthened, a compost pile to be turned, a workshop in which to construct thoughts, a debating opponent to be won over, a cat to be stroked, a funhouse to be explored, and forty-three others. There are a lot of right ways to model the mind -- all depending on what you think is important."

This is the part that is missing from the doc, and that perhaps might appeal to you and Rose more. The universe is *none* of these things! It is so much bigger than any one conception of it. 

Here is what Terrence McKenna said:

We are part of a symbiosis with something that disguises itself as an alien invasion so as not to alarm us.

And here is what Whitley Strieber has to say:

...the physical world is embedded in a much larger, older and richer reality. However, we cannot yet detect it with any instrument we possess. The result of this is that we deny it altogether, in part because we cannot apply any known method of discovery to it, and in part because we in the west fear that our secular freedoms, acquired at great cost from a religious dictatorship that lasted a thousand years, will be lost to that dictatorship once again if we so much as whisper the possibility that the soul may exist.

It is not the soul of religion, though, but something very different, much more real and, in the end, much more obviously part of nature. Nor is it really separate from the body. A living being is, rather, a continuity. The borders of a human being are not found along the edges of the flesh but rather within us, where there are depths that we have forgotten but can regain and, if we are to survive much longer as a species, must regain.

None of the above is solely about control, is it? It is rather about our creative relationship to it. We co-create our worldview, do we not? We are a part of that which, in the end, we are attempting to describe.

You may be asking, so what? Well, quite simply, to me this is what a Mystery Religion is all about -- and has been since the dawn of thinking in the face of such wonder and awe.

Life is a miracle flashing before cynical eyes.