BECOMING EXPONENTIAL

WHO ARE YOU?

iAMconnected is a platform for Self Optimisation. But it’s not what you might initially think. The big question to ask is… ”Who is the self we are optimising?”

Is it our body : mind? 

Our bodies are made up of trillions of individual cells, billions are multiplying and dying every day. Are you doing that? I know I am not. So are we this body or are we that which is able to use the body? 

As someone who has been meditating for over 20 years, one of the keys mediation teaches us is that we are able to observe thoughts and dissolve emotions. We come to learn that we aren’t the story in our heads (mental stories are individual and collective conditioned experiences). Programs. With practice we learn to dwell outside the stories, to observe and even change the programs. So are we the programs of the mind or are we that which is able to observe and program the mind? 

WHO ARE YOU REALLY?

iAMconnected is about exploring that and becoming more of who we truly are, moving beyond our identification with being the body : mind. Yes we can optimise the body : mind (our avatar) and we do, but we are more than the body : mind. Our identification with them is keeping us stuck in a pandemic of poor mental health at a time when we need to become unstuck more than ever.

As a platform iAMconnected integrates key biometric data from wearable technologies along with subjective inputs from a daily journal into a user dashboard. The data provides a feedback loop allowing us to use this objective and subjective data to identify patterns, track and optimise key metrics. Metrics include – Sleep (total sleep, deep sleep, REM sleep), Dreams, Recovery (resting heart rate (RHR), heart rate variability (HRV)), Activity (step count), Meditation (frequency and duration), Healing (tracking triggers / contractions).  

This is shared with a coach, who’s role it is to support you to understand your data and identify patterns and inconsistencies in your goals and actions. 

We are using the iAMconnected technology to shift our identification with the body : mind to an experienced sense of who you really are. 

A powerful, aware presence that has access to a body : mind, here on the planet at this incredibly pivotal time to awaken and do important work

WHY IS THIS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER BEFORE? 

We are fast approaching a convergence point where exponential technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Neurotech, BioTech, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Quantum Computing (among others) will blur the lines between artificial and the real, and between the virtual and the real. 

Dating back to when we were primates and first used a stick to get at fruit on a branch outside our reach, we’ve progressively used tools and technologies in more sophisticated ways to extend our abilities. That’s no different to today as we progressively explore tools, techniques and technologies to realise ever increasing levels of performance and potential. 

What does that mean? You may be familiar with the concept of Moore’s Law. Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years. The law claims that we can expect the speed and capability of our computers to increase every two years because of this, yet we will pay less for them. Another tenet of Moore’s Law asserts that this growth is exponential. Meaning advances in technology are evolving exponentially with the realisation of the technological singularity within the next 25 years. A point where technology is evolving so quickly that we can imagine beyond. 

To gain a better understanding of exponential growth let’s use the following example. Taking 30 steps moves you about 30 metres. Taking 30 exponential steps (where each step doubles in length) moves you 1,073,741,823 metres.

IT MEANS LIFE IS SET TO CHANGE SUPER FAST. ARE YOU READY FOR IT?  

Our thesis is that we are not separate from that and life has been evolving along a similar exponential curve. Whilst we don’t really know how everything started, one of the most popular theories is that 13.8 billion years ago the universe began with a singularity, a tiny point which contained everything in the known universe, and in fractions of a second exploded in a big bang.