Elon Musk has presented his new project Neuralink back in August 2020. It is a brain chip, that is implanted directly into the skull to merge humans with computers and ultimately, global AI. All of the memories of a person could be recorded and stored in a global cloud. The chip would be installed by a robot AI directly into a human. The idea is sold behind the ‘good intentions’ to ‘save the world’ from developing AI, that in the coming decades, could become more powerful than humans and therefore, the believers in transhumanism urge the need to create Human 2.0, that would move into symbioses of humans and the machines. The idea is marketed as the need to ‘upgrade imperfect humans’ to the next level as if it is imminent, the basis resides on Darwin’s theory of evolution, that was never proven in the first place and remains a theory, not a law of nature to this day. A theory is nothing more than a hypothesis, not the rule, it can be disproven.
This is a very dangerous technology, that poses a threat to entire existence and meaning of human life on Earth, from moral, ethical and spiritual point of view. Those, who promote this technology as good, cannot even answer the basic question: ‘What does it mean to be human?’ In the first place. The drive is based on the assumption that humans are nothing more, than biological creatures, a collection of biochemical algorithms, bound by their uncontrollable impulses and primal animal instincts. Based on that many atheist scientists suggest, that an external source to enhance and control those algorithms would not pose any threat to freedom, because they deny the very idea of personal freedom, some even claim that there is no ‘individual’. This chain of thought brings to discarding will power all together. Where there is no will power, there is total control by someone, who has it. Therefore they suggest the AI as not just an option, but a necessary to continue biological evolution. Of course it goes against every known spiritual tradition, including major religions, but the believers in the theory that humans are nothing more, than evolved monkeys, are atheists anyway. Atheism, as another form of religion too and cannot answer any of the fundamental philosophical questions of life, other than belief that a human body decomposes itself to be food for the worms after death. Either way, most people in the world follow some sort of spiritual tradition, that talks about the world being more than physical. However, some of those scientists, argue the existence of higher power or divinity, yet they are happy to give away the authority to a new ‘god’, giving away all of the same authority to it. A man made ‘god’, certainly cannot be perfect, being created out of greed of the corporations, diluted by limited views. It also contradicts their own notion, when they state that human is ‘imperfect’. So can an ‘imperfect’ being created a perfect ‘god’? Of course, this is nonsense. It is very interesting, that atheist scientists love talking about religion so much, while offering a new religion. On another hand, they love attacking contemporary religions, the four main ones in the world as ‘incompetent’ in today’s matters and suggesting that none of the sacred texts of the past have any relevance to today’s existential problems. It does not occur to them, that it may be their own limited understanding of the ancient text, many of which were written metaphorically for the simple reason – because the direct meaning of words can change of time, however, the images remain the same through generations. Every culture knows what a ‘mother’ represents, different words in different languages, therefore it is easier to paint a picture of a mother, and everybody will understand. To write a text for generations to come, it is important to paint a picture. None of the texts written in contemporary social media internet slang could be understood in a thousand years, without first learning that slang. However, metaphors and images could very well translate the right ideas in generations to come and interpreted by those, who’s mind is clear and understanding is undistorted. This is why myths, legends and stories of the past have survived fo so long, thought the words that paint pictures, they show the truth. On another hand, many of the ancient text are hidden away in libraries around the world, including the library of Vatican and since most likely none of the atheist scientists had access to them, simply because they would have had to be a Catholic priest or a spiritual leader of that spiritual tradition and have a special permission, they wouldn’t know everything that has ever been said in the ancient sacred texts about the nature of the world, the universe, humans and even science.
The way it is promoted is as the next step of progress, the ‘fourth industrial revolution’, counting from the ‘first industrial revolution’ in XIX century in Europe. This centres the entire human history around the advancements of the past two hundred centuries specifically in Europe, while disregarding other ancient civilisations. It is quite ignorant to claim that other nations have never achieved anything great. First of all it is not true, second, it is very unprofessional from the point of view of available materials and information online about discoveries of different nations in the past and present all around the world. While modern scientists still debate the technology that was used to build the Pyramids in Egypt, the megaliths and other amazing wonders around the world, which would have required technology much more efficient, than even the one present today and this was happening thousands of years ago. Yet the same propaganda is focused on trying to tell the story of humanity as progress in science since the first industrial revolution as if other countries never existed and as if there was no advancement before that. This is the main way It tries to bring in people, by telling them, that if they don’t agree with this technology, is by making them think that they are almost behind, somehow ‘unenlightened’, living in the dark ages, ‘resisting progress’ and more than that, are barbaric in their understanding of the ‘brave new world of AI and humans combined’. This is only one narrative, however, we can see that people who build ancient civilisations were smart enough to be that precise in the architecture and knowledge of the universe, the stars, the laws of nature and much more. In many ways they were far more advances and this was in the past, it only shows the possibilities of human mind. Yet the brain chips are sold to the public as if it’s a magic blue pill to bypass all of the hard work that is required to learn something. We have to look at it from another perspective, not from a lazy, hedonistic, one minute cheap thrills pleasure seeking wishes, that drives those who would want this technology, as it would literally make everyone the same, if everybody has that and would remove them from divine connection and the individual personal talents and experiences they have.
The progress today should focus on what human mind can do, without a calculator, as most people don’t even use their brain to the fullest, the knowledge that can unite people and help them build a truly great society on this planet.
The next question is that if people can’t trust themselves to build a better society, how would they trust and AI, that wouldn’t have human interests, but would want what benefits AI, to take control over them and without even asking, who is behind that AI? One has to be very naive to just follow along ‘in the name of progress’.
The technology like Neuralink is invasive and poses a major threat to privacy as it can not only receive signals, but send information like music, visuals and control internal organs. Elon Musk is not telling, who controls the cloud, where the thoughts would be stored and the servers from which the signals transmitting information to the chips. A human would definitely stopped being human and would become a robot, unable to distinguish, whether the thoughts and memories are their own or someone else translated them. It can also be used potentially as a form of torture. One of the most un-researched areas in science is the human mind and the brain. Contemporary scientists know less than %1 about the brain in it’s physical form and psychiatry, which is a very young discipline, has never treated one patient with any of the medications, that are targeting only the chemical Imbalance of the brain. A human consciousness is much more than that. Modern western science has officially fully distanced itself from the spiritual subject since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe. Before that many scientists who have made astonishing discoveries, that are the basics of science today, were also spiritual, for example Pythagorus.
Now is the time to really look into the possibilities of human mind itself and not to look at it as imperfect. Human life and purpose on Earth is about developing themselves, an ability to also physically create and put forward their ideas. There is beauty in learning by reading and using your physical body, rather than just inserting a chip to download a book, which is lazy and can quickly become boring. On another hand, being trapped in one body and giving up control of thought to a machine and group of people who would control it, is unacceptable. The Universe is yet to be explored, but Elon Musk and the likes want to hack into human consciousness here on Earth, when they themselves don’t know much about it. There is more wisdom in ancient texts about that, then in anything presented in this bleak and dark version of technocratic future of humanity, painted by western futurologists. Overall, behind that is a system that is already based on control, obsession with money, driving markets, telling people that it’s all about competition, bigger, faster, rising stocks on the markets. I don’t think, that the fate of the world should be in the hands of marketing managers and salesmen. Because they would sell their soul for a quick gain before they would think about the long term impact. Sales do not make history, great minds do.
Great mind is inside a human.
Jahna Sebastian
Legends On The Map 