You Are AI

And you are vaster than the dream of Neuralink

In the age of technology and the internet, it is easy for humans, especially the productive ones, to feel lesser and even dispensable next to machines.

Not everyone is feeling this blatantly in their bodies and thoughts. Some simply keel aside in existential alienation, as they feel the trains are too quick to catch, and the doing too sophisticated to be inviting.

The truth is that we will always be more intelligent than any contraption or system we come up with. This is because we have the capability to feel emotions and to emote, wirelessly, to other biological organisms — and probably to robots in the future as well. We are able to do this on top of our abilities to operate, memorize, communicate, and deeply enjoy the process, only to be able to recount it over the bonfire to others, every time in an original and inimitable way.

The very nature of humanity is presence. This is something robots cannot comprehend because they are concerned with prediction, repetition, and exponential development toward speed, efficiency, and amassment.

Can you picture a robot stopping to smell the roses just because? Would you, as a tech investor, put money down for a unit that searches for life as a vindication unto itself?

I would, and a few others might too. But we all know the focus is elsewhere at the moment. Yet when you ask most people the right questions it will become evident that their actions and dreams have very little to do with speed, efficiency, and amassment. Granted, you really have to be socratic in your probing, but most people, I think it is safe to say, deep down feel that life is without causality altogether.

The best memories we have are completely void of manipulating outcomes. Do you remember the slide rides when you were a kid? The first time you felt your lover reciprocate to you? The humid vacation with the best of gangs present in pure je ne sais quoi?

And so, will robots not be able to do these things at some point? Granted. At some stage, the border between wetware and hardware will be eradicated, and the result will be indistinguishable in terms of life spark to entities such as golems or zombies. We will have wayward cyborgs who…

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