A reflection on the meaning of life.
A year ago, Lex Fridman asked Claire Elise Boucher, aka Grimes, what her opinion was about reality and the meaning of life.
And she replied to Lex, “What if this is the universe seeing itself for the first time? And maybe this social media and all these things connecting… Maybe it’s the neurons connecting of a collective superintelligence.”
In the same interview, she said that we were part of a much larger organism, which is waking up, and that it may not need us when it wakes up and becomes more complete through AI since we humans are fragile.
Like a snake shedding its skin (we are the skin).
And all this blew my mind. And it made me ask myself the following questions.
Where is the survival instinct?
If, as Grimes says, we are organisms that will form a universal mega-organism, what about the survival instinct, that incredible force that moves us human beings?
Will we prefer to be a global whole instead of fighting for independence?
If an AI or any other technology wants to eliminate us tomorrow, I believe that human beings would defend themselves, even if their fight would be useless.
And the mere fact of defending ourselves due to our instinct of self-preservation would disable us from being a disposable part of that mega organism.
What about the human experience?
It takes biological life to experience biology.
Without a flesh and blood body, you can’t know what tomato spaghetti tastes or what flowers smell like. Nor can you become addicted. Nor can you have psychedelic trips when you consume certain substances.
Not to mention that a cold machine would never believe in spirituality or religion because its zeros and ones do not admit the mystery that hides behind the metaphysical and supernatural.
Conclusion: Altered states of consciousness, anything related to the senses, or spirituality/religion cannot be experienced by machines or AIs.
It can be replicated/simulated. But it would be best if you were alive to be alive. You know.
What about the observer?
Reality consists of two parts,
- Observer.
- And the observed.
What happens to reality without an observer (only with machines as observers)? Does it exist, or does it not exist?
If we all die, and there is no one left to experience this universe, does this universe exist or not?
We could say that the universe exists independently of our existence — it did for thousands of years and will do so if we become extinct. But we can say it because we EXIST. If we didn’t exist, we couldn’t say shit.
This brings me to the last and most disturbing question.
What about innovation?
There would be no innovation because human breakthroughs are born from channeling what many spiritual people call the Akashic Records, the poet’s muses, the Christians’ holy spirit, the scientists, creativity, you name it.
Human beings are portals of information from other higher planes of consciousness or different dimensions; who knows?
The fact is that ideas come down through us, and then we materialize them in this 3D reality using the resources and means at our disposal.
If the universe takes us out of the equation and uses robots and AIs, it can invent new things by remixing everything channeled by a man from those planes of consciousness until the date it takes us out of the way.
But when the combinatorial ends, will it create something new or continue remixing without stopping?
And what will he create? Why make chocolate cakes if there is no one to eat them? 🙂
Why make anything?
Besides, the AI, although they say they can have consciousness, what they can’t have is a Soul, which is something proper of the human being.
Unless the concept of the Soul is nothing more than a concept and does not exist (I believe it does exist, and I have a soul).
We should get that answer soon.
Final thoughts
I don’t know where we are going as humanity. But following Grimes’ premise, which she got from reading a book titled Novocene by James Lovelock, I have allowed myself to think about the following options.
Option one: the universe wakes up and discards us, so we are less important than we thought.
Option two: the universe realizes that it needs us for our spirituality (Soul) to continue creating and it makes life easier for us, creating abundance for all and lots of chocolate cakes 🙂
Option three: the universe ends us, and the world becomes a sterile factory that only serves the animals that are left (if there are any left).
Option four: the universe wakes up and has consciousness and feelings and Soul and everything, and realizes that it is a universal mega intelligence but that it is going to spend the rest of eternity alone, and produces a big bang so that everything starts all over again, and not to face that cosmic horror 🙂
What do you think?
A virtual hug
AG
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