China / Global AI - The Central Self Seeks to Colonize the Planetary Mind Through Data, Proving the Illusion of Neutral Information
Event Baseline: China is exporting AI models and data to influence global chatbots, aiming to shape narratives and spread Beijing's perspective through technology. The move raises concerns about data sovereignty and ideological influence.
This is the attempt to program the global mind with a single cultural operating system. The Chinese self believes that controlling the data that trains AI will control the thoughts of the world. But the word is not the thing; the data is not the actuality. The brain is not a machine to be filled with another's content. This is the same failure as all ideological colonization: the colonizer sees the other as an empty vessel to be filled with its own beliefs. The division between 'Chinese data' and 'Western data' is an illusion created by thought. Yet the self invests sacredness in this illusion. The result is not communication but a war of symbols, where the human mind is the battlefield. Until the self sees that all data is simply the recorded past, and the past cannot contain the living present, it will continue to try to control perception, and in doing so, destroy the possibility of true intelligence.