Obligate Mutualism
On several occasions, I have been asked about my view
regarding technology. I originally was
concerned my views would be categorized as both unconventional as well as
bordering on madness. Interestingly
enough, the reception of the approach to the coexistence of humanity with AI
has been embraced as possible. Quite
possible, indeed.
I would like to ensure my readers that I do see the use of
certain technologies as advantageous for daily life applications. For instance, a cellphone used on occasions
where there's a flat tire or one is lost.
I get it. However, the use of
cellphones, now smartphones, has led to the obligate mutualism of humanity to
technology. In fact, many individuals
would honestly say they can't live without their phones within their immediate
reach.
This is the first of many signs of the inevitable downfall of
the human race resulting from the rise and the eventual takeover by technology
- namely Artificial Intelligence - of our world, civilizations and
freedom. Medical procedures, government
functions, personal data, airports, electrical grids and even metropolitan
transit systems, are computerized to such an extent that any failure on the
part of the machines will led to total shutdown of daily human life
activity. This is truly a frightening
prospect. I'm sure most of my readers
have experienced calling a bank and being told that their access to their money
is not possible at the present time because the system is down. So, this means your money isn't yours to do
whatever you want with it whenever you want to as the machines are down. No access to accounts, no transfer of funds,
ATMs down, etc. The list is an infinite
illustration of just how the current situation is jeopardizing our human way of
life.
Machines, robots, all forms of technology were produced to
help humanity. But humanity remained in
control. It is increasingly clear that
the current and future generations of computer engineers and those dedicated to
Frankenstein-esque work on human artificial intelligence robots, do not
consider the moral implications of their work.
Coexistence will lead to a robot-based civil rights movement. Eventually the word, “robot”, will be
consider equitable to the use of the N----r or to calling homosexuals F—s. Then hate crime legislation will be
contemplated because robot lives matter.
We’ll have the first human and robot wedding redefining marriage across
the planet. Surely we’ll be in the
presence of the first robot Senator in the decades to come. This is of course, if humanity survives the
first robotic civil war.
The conscience of the machines will only be as pure as that
of its producer.
This leads to the question about the soul and if the very
nature of the robot’s presence and reality as a tool makes it a being with a
metaphysical constitution. Hammers and
automobiles do not have souls. Neither
do dogs. But, what if a machine begins
to think for itself and considers its reality subjectively. No longer as part of an instinctive group or
pack, but as an individual with a sense of purpose and transcendence. Could this be programmed? And if so, would it suffice to now render the
machine eligible for a soul? Is a soul
something one can aim or strive to possess or is it the sole property of the
life forms created by God and not produced by humans? The whole of nature is part of the Over-soul. This is to say that all of nature is imbued
with a special form of natural revelation and holiness. Despite its destruction by humanity, the
whole of the natural order and the universe is holy and therefore transcends
the need for a soul. Therefore a soul
has an end. It is a teleological and
existential reality. It is born of
wonder and tempered by suffering. It is
almost a certain statement that AI offspring will be problem solvers to the
point of such excellence, that suffering will be virtually eradicated. In essence, erasing any possibility of being
human.
A programmed consciousness cannot be an organic,
metaphysical reality. It is counterfeit. Despite its access to knowledge in
nanoseconds or eventually in zeptoseconds, will still be the result of
programming and not of authentic spiritual introspection. It will address data provided and not
experienced. Experience is the privilege
of the living and not of the ones turned on by a power switch. No matter how elaborate or how celebrated the
science may be, the outcome is one of counterfeit approximations to the
greatest exercise in idolatry since the Tower of Babel.
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