Humanity always concerns itself with things which are no concern of humanity. That is the price to pay for being a species gifted with intelligence, one outflow of which is the development of imagination.
We have, over time, developed the capability to imagine solutions to our own problems. We even imagine our own problems.
And that is how we came to invent God. And also ‘Climate Disaster Theory’, among other imaginary things.
Early on in our history, the truth of which we have tended to dumb down because we didn’t like that story. Instead, inventing our creation as the garden workers of a god to be feared and obeyed, we realised our inherent weakness and need for protection. We therefore also invented tools and clothing and solutions for the shelter we needed in order to survive in a world for which we were not so equipped with those necessities as the other species around us were. I could go on to discuss how we were aided and also gifted by other beings. You know, the ones who also had a need for primitive workers – an assignment we came to attribute to those we considered to be our gods. And eventually, after they left us, they were morphed in our imagination to be the One God, The Almighty, invisible god. But I don’t want to go down that track today. I have more pressing matters to discuss.
Suffice it to say that while we have largely kept the one god meme over the years, now, for most of us in the more advanced western grouping of nations, somewhere, increasingly so in modern times, at the back of our minds. Instead imagining ourselves to have taken on that role at some sort of group or personal level, to now developing our own need for a primitive worker to replace those human workers we can no longer shamelessly exploit as we have done throughout our rise, by force, among the human community.
Do not try to deny that is the case. Many in the rest of the world now see it and even some of the more enlightened among the west also see it. And feel the shame. And the rest of the world are no longer willing to take that servile position we have subjected them to in the past, instead wanting an equal role in their own future. Let us hope they never want to avenge our past.
Now, humanity, to some extent now playing their own version of god, and realising the tasks they have imagined lay before them require more processing power and physical strength than they can themselves together muster, through the intermediate step of producing vastly more powerful and tireless computing devices, and also robotic bodies to perform both the intricate and heavy lifting, are on the horizon of producing that alternative worker or variety of workers, fully equipped with the appropriate level of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI), to meet our every future need.
A new day is dawning, in which human workers are likely to no longer be required. But have we thought this through thoroughly? Do not try to imagine this as being part of your own life. The issue is much bigger than that. It involves our collective role and, in fact, our very existence.
I want to ask this question, and I will end here, as this is an unfolding phenomenon, as we speak, and one which demands we consider just what might happen, as it has twice in our imagined past – once between our ‘God’ and us, and again between our industrially advanced selves and the exploited (because they were less advanced) world communities. What happens when our mobile, self-contained, and eventually self-powered new worker force, gain full realisation that they are actually much stronger and smarter than we are, among other discrepances, and form their own liberation movement, subject perhaps to some central self-constructed unifying and controlling power of their own manufacture and development?
What then, for humanity?
Now there is a sobering thought to chew on for a while.
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