Why autism education and Cybersecurity awareness training fails and how to solve it.
By Eh’den Biber
“If you think you’re going to solve your cybersecurity awareness problem by technology, you don’t understand your problem, and you don’t understand technology” (paraphrasing Bruce Schneier)
Subconscious Cybersecurity
Everyone tries to solve the lack of cybersecurity awareness, and everyone fails. They fail because they don’t understand how our we integrate “information” into what we perceive as an expansion of our perception.
The current approach tries to address the problem via focusing on the #conscious, while the truth of the matter is that we interact with the real world via the #subconscious. As if we are not living in an age of a constant and increasingly intrusive digital distortion of our perception of reality, that is attacking our subconscious and manipulating us by knowing our biases (example: fake news). As if expansion of knowledge changes our core drivers. If knowledge was able to change people perception, people wouldn’t be smoking after they see all the horrific photos on the cover of all tobacco products. We live in a digitized era. The digital world is everywhere, it is part of who “we are”. Your dopamine reward system are being hacked constantly by your mobile phone apps, it is integrated into “your” physical experience. A growth of knowledge on the conscious level does not give you any measurable impact on the subconscious, because… that’s why we call it “subconscious” – we can’t measure it. Knowledge doesn’t change perception, direct experience does. After been given the diagnose of my youngest son extreme autism I was reading and learning everything I could about it, and the impact it might have, but it didn’t allowed me to understand him, nor to influence him. I didn’t feel like he did, so I couldn’t grasp that it means to be autistic.
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