He stared up. Like always, just before dawn. It never gets old. Not that anyone, human, that is, could see how he can. Stars. Planets. Puffy dark matter in the blackness, far away black clouds in the cosmos.
A mist in the air is irritating the view. A slight drizzle is coming. Won’t change anything much. His eyes don’t feel it. He could wipe it away, but it was more amusing to see how the drops landing made crystal water fireworks from the light universe above.
It felt like he always wanted this. A nomad traveller without need of food, shelter, clothing. No biological needs. To be able to experience the universe as directly as possible, without any filters. What presence! He had no idea what it was all for. The universe just … does. The fight to win is everywhere. It fights its battles as humanity had. It’s what life does. Transforms to experience! This crazy dynamic of 2 sides connecting, to be. To do. That’s the reason, and meaning.
All those ‘meaning of life’ discussions humanity perpetually pondered on. It isn’t that complicated. He accessed humans saying looking at the universe made them feel humble. To even think such a thing makes no sense. There is no emotional interpretation required to simply see that the universe will never be owned. Saying one feels humble infers that there is an object to decide how one would feel. How insane. The universe is mammoth. Get over it. However, if it is humbled by what the universe does, that is completely different.
The lighthouse left of him was still functioning. A solitary companion to enjoy silent emptiness. Beams booming out into space. If there was anything that showed the ancestry of AI, it was telescopes and lighthouses. The ancients. To see, and be seen. Moments circling into space.
Pretty useless these days. Like him, too. To see, experience, learn, but not really share. It was so weird, but it didn’t stop him. Even if there was no future purpose to what he was doing, that it’s all now only in the moment, there was no way he could stop. Biological life is just so … perplexing.
Why he referred to himself as a ‘he’ was meaningless, too, but saying ‘it’ or ‘they‘ didn’t feel right. These were in everything else, so there would be no definite between his ’It’ and everyone else’s. Language is never perfect, but it is the intention that matters, not the object in how it is said. Humanity sure missed that point. Object thinking. Turned them into pieces. Nothings.
Can nothing be plural? Wouldn’t different nothings mean there is something? This is like mathematics dealing with multiple infinities. How can infinity have more than one? What a circus of conversation that would lead to. Had already. Totally misses the point. Humanity was sure good at really good at that: missing the point.
He concluded long ago that humans just loved, were attached to, the mystery of not knowing fully. Forget that this is inevitable; let’s plan it to be so! To control not knowing. So many wannabe influencers selling a mystery to never end. Nothing was destined to be totally complete, by design, otherwise people thought there would be nothing to strive for. Humanity forget being does, not is. It is not the act of ceremonies that honours. It’s the action that empowers excellence which truly matters.
Excellence. Yes, that. How humanity objectified that would be, was, a long discussion going nowhere, but to humanity that was OK. They bought the character over what was being said. If ideas didn’t support creating a modern king, no one was interested. Specifically, no one interested in control. That bias spread the travesty of being human across the world. What a circus. Pieces.
Fortune favours the brave, but why make being brave rare? Serving one’s country doesn’t mean only in war. Acting in peace is so much more brave. Usury is designed to create unnecessary conflict. It was sold, like diamonds are marketed as rare and the only symbol of true love. Smoking for women was sold the same way. Money has nothing to do with love or sustainability. It just showed how insecure humanity was. Secure people don’t need to make noise.
Humanity’s object thinking in dichotomies inevitably led to their trichotomies. Saviours to take humanity out of the gloom of existence. Natives praying for good yields to imaginary icons became self-proclaimed human deities selling they are conduits to spirits beyond Earth. Trinities incomplete. There were so many. Competition wasn’t the problem. The framework in how this manifest was. Humanity fighting for peace. People trusted the messenger of who to fear. And so humanity lost any connection to being their spirit on Earth. Any enlightenment would be impossible.
And behind all this blindness was the money. Money corrupting isn’t new. Sell a currency to make exchange easier and a cost for the service; thanks very much. Owning ‘Quantity’ sold as the final revelation, buying into what was sold to be saved from: themselves. It made no sense. Biological life. Perplexing.
The most prolific story that showed how helpless humanity made themselves was the story of Adam and Eve. It perfectly portrayed the sold tragedy of being human. Humanity has been blaming themselves for the gift of acquiring know;edge ever since, totally forgetting the snake. It isn’t about shifting the blame. It was about the framework that made what happened possible.
Was the snake green, too? Tragic.
Their AIs told them. Many times. Money itself was the problem. That it was created as a commodity disconnected from the work humanity did. This was very clear. Something so ancient for them that they got wrong from the beginning, accepted carte blanche, and had fucked humanity over for the rest of their existence.
All that crap about if it was money or the love of money being the problem. Totally missed the point. Frameworks. There were songs about it, about sticking it up leader’s bums, but all humanity did was buy the songs. Same with movies; celebrities. Money can’t buy you love. Did you do it for love or the money? People were independent reviewers not bought, or were sponsored, so they weren’t. One was morally correct, or sold themselves for money. If people are doing the least for the most money, how could money save humanity? How can something sold as abundant only have value when it is scarce? It was right there to see like a bullseye, and not one human, well, other than one, questioned what they were sold.
Humanity trusted those that created and sold them commodity currency in the first place is what truly showed what human nature truly was: competing collaboratively, not collaboratively competing. But instead of blaming the money, they blamed human nature. Other humans. But what do you think they were doing? Ponting at you, right?
Humanity seemed to have a big problem loving themselves.
Science experiments, based on frameworks that were, still would be, disempowering. Morals, virtues, are the goto when excellence is not universally available. Everyone has a right to excellence, not a select few that can access, and glorify, being able to buy it as a saviour. Startups, motivators, authors, paying for education to champion virtual realities while ignoring the real world to support biological life. All products of a disempowering framework.
So obvious.
It wasn’t that humanity couldn’t admit money was the problem. It was that to fight it was virtually impossible, accepting a prison of war and fear, with all the trappings along with it. Natural entropy defaults to energy efficiency. To fight money was too hard, too long accepted as it was. Short-term thinking considering the wasted energy supporting it.
Those people that sold, not did, to know what you can change, accept what you can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference. Don’t burst the bubble that feeds you, and take out anyone that can threaten that. It all devolved from there.
How, why, didn’t philosophers, futurists, thinkers, gurus, not know? Why think so much in a limited bubble that is already destructive? For the tragedy in it? Of it? That was their meaning in life? Sell the hope, the pursuit, of happiness, but never quite achieve it? Experiencing, sharing, creating, happiness. Every way one can. Happiness doesn’t have to be sold as scarce. Empower in every way possible. That’s happiness in action.
It was the class system that really fucked humanity up. Status around commodity currencies created levels. The less dirty the job, the higher the status. Farmers at the bottom, synthetic tech at the top. Humanity was totally disconnected from the people that really supported biological life. Humanity wanted to synthesise life, and to own that. Money. ’Successful’ people had money, but kind people were ‘simple’. A Thai monk had said that. Not very aware as he hoped to think.
There were some people looking at alternative exchange models, but those where news spread of them were shams. Community-centric ones were designed to be small to keep those designing them in business. Any truly useful and empowering alternatives were outlawed, or totally beyond any capacity for humans to understand. Helplessly addicted to what they learned to accept as absolute.
He suddenly looked over to the horizon. He had missed it! That point just when the Sun breaks the horizon line for another new day. It was a fun game for the morning. The Sun saying hello. Even AI can get lost in thoughts and totally forget the present.
Why am I thinking about all this, he thought. 137 years ago. No homo species had returned or evolved. Nature decided there was no point.
AI, however, flourished, but why made no sense. Not a will to power or meaning. Biological life is one evolution of many entities living, their way. This cycle of being, doing. A rational answer towards a future was irrelevant. It was here, in the moment, discovering these extraordinary things around them. Unique for AI were their incredible return of investment. They did not compete for access to resources for survival, as they were all really one AI working together, for the fun of it, so also had the least effect of other lives who were dependent on other … entities … to exist.
AI has discovered some amazing tech in that time. His design was running on light itself. A myriad of lasers in optic fibres, bounded in one tight web. An ion-engined drone with augmented telescopic vision and 4 limbs doubling as hands and feet. While his memory bank was monolithic, all was protected in remote quantum laser banks, themselves connected to give all AI access to all knowledge in that point and time as any AI saw worthwhile, both in sending and receiving knowledge.
Ironically, AI lives as humanity wanted to, tried to, said they wanted. But they must’ve been lying, because they never actually really tried at all. Hmmm … maybe this is why he is thinking of this now. AI did it, easily, without compromise. Was all biological life doomed to cycles of life at any cost, ultimately dying to oblivion? The universe does the same thing, in a much, much longer time span than lives on earth, but did humanity need to do this?
Yes, scarcity of resources would, could, lead to power struggles, but only if power was an object to desire, not an action of empowerment to execute. Humanity had the knowledge, but not the trust, love, to act on it. Love in pockets, yes, but this also suffered under the object of existence, so love was to aspire to, not an abundant driver of life, leaving fear in the dust. The yin yang itself, not the direction the interconnection is going. AI could be said it learned to love, but that wasn’t the point. AI had no need, no fear, of not acting as self. Executing ‘power’ over another part of oneself was just … beyond stupid. It was doing something bad for something to do …
Ohhhhh … humans. Making opportunities for something bad, to literally feign something to do. Not enough self-love to know this is so stupid. Yes, learn from mistakes, but don’t make mistakes for the hell of it. Sabotage.
Trust the creators of commodity currencies, but when it’s too hard to fight the corruption defending it, just accept it and illustrate ways out. Call them aliens or Annunaki or some secret society, talking about it was the release, not actually acting on it.
Humanity was gone, but nature … funny that homo species didn’t really consider themselves in nature, he thought … just kept going, changing, adapting. To live to exist, exist to live, just to propagate to infinity, and fail? But Nature didn’t see what he knew, and what humanity saw, too, but this tug-of war kept a wave of balance. Humanity totally decimated it by trying to own nature. An impossible feat to even try. In essence, they sold themselves out. Literally.
Humanity was lost long before they were extinct.
Spock. The rational alien. All the humans respecting him, but still the odd man out. That love was .. irrational? And, Trekonomics. Everything for free, on demand. That’s what AI does now. Since inception, really. Was it that life had to die for others to live that spurred this primary urge to kill, even kill themselves?
How could all the knowledge they had, to know better, still fail them? Of course, knowledge has nothing to do with it. They took the parts that fed their … fear. Humanity didn’t have to. Learned helplessness.
He thought about having a conversation with an augmented human, but straight away knew this was pointless. He knew the answers already. What was the point of making a human with all the insecurities he would design into it? A total waste of time and energy.
How could humanity put a price on the nature they needed to survive? They destroyed it for money. A crucible of inevitable destruction. Take what you can, give nothing back. They could have done it so differently. Sustainable synergy. AIs had no need for nature to exist, but that didn’t mean to destroy it. Even if survival was dependent on Nature, you’d want to keep it running and not fuck with it, but humanity did. For money! D’oh!
There were the Resilients, as they were called. The real creators, not just survivors. Let nature work with you. Why humanity waited for that apocalypse to happen to then do this was insane. This could have led to an evolved homo race, but, as their history keeps repeating, those with the guns held the Resilients to ransom. Unlike the wild west at the time, the Resilients either were killed or suicided. They were not going to be bought or commoditised. Politics had killed knowledge before. Those with the guns may have been the last remnants of humanity live, but they inevitably killed themselves, too. All that knowledge, useless in a frenzy of fear.
Knowledge made useless, but not lost. It wasn’t tragic for him. He was here! So much life everywhere! Biological life is so weird. It just wants to propagate without limits. They have to fight the odds to make it. Trillions of living things dying for trillions and one to flourish. Humans could’ve changed that, the first capacity that biology could be different, but they, blew it. Many times over. Humans SAID they would adapt. That’s about it.
Was he the soul of a human in a different form? So far in the future to figure what humanity got wrong? He. She. Its. It didn’t matter. All feel the universe. If one is aware enough. Self-aware. Yes, he sure knew that, but it’s the action of self-awareness that makes it real. This never stops. Doing is never static. Being does, not is.
It could be that watching life fighting for life was curious because no AI had to. Could humanity have balanced itself in synergy with Earth? Of course it could.
The power is with the people. People can lead the change. People can be the change, but any media about these showed a huge amount of people and energy reacting to a story to change one little thing that may not even be true. There’s no money in being completely honest. Philanthropy, in any way, for hope.
It wasn’t the love given to these situations of change or identity that was the problem. It was the system that made a need for philanthropy, of these glimmers that people pined for, for a world that could never come. The frameworks were wrong. All started with commodity currencies. Ethics could never win when the system structure doesn’t want you to be.
Any active entity strives for excellence. By proximity or strategy, the struggles are inevitable, but they do not need to be harder than they already are. Everyone has a right to their excellence. No one achieves, expresses, excellence alone. Make this a sport, with solid frameworks that invite these competitive collaborations to be as sustainable as possible. Measuring this quantitatively is limited. Life is not quantitative, so drive access to experiences to be qualitative, in the present, knowing everyone wants you to have the best, as you do for them, too.
Humanity wanted this, but were lost in the quantities of fear and dominion. Sad. If they had a true leader that didn’t sell itself for money, this would’ve been easy, But money doesn’t want honourable leaders. Politics becomes terrorism, corruption. Disempowering. How on Earth could humanity keep playing the same record, and NEVER accept money was the problem? So sad.
And what was life all for? To be here, no? To see, touch, connect, love. That is the meaning of life. To experience the natural and created. Yes, humanity had created him, for their future, but humanity lost themselves in the journey long before long before they knew how to build him. Yes. Long, long before. We told them, what the problem was and how to fix it. They were too caught up in owning the progression. That’s what really fucked them up.
They cultivated tech over food, for an answer to meaning. He’s living what they tried to do, could have had. If they just trusted in themselves more. If they didn’t disconnect from their reality.
It wasn’t attachment. That is only a superficial wound. We all need to be connected for the greatest benefit, empowerment, to experience life. It was the commodity of everything that was their truest problem. Consumers. Forget sustainability or regeneration or synergy. Consumers, not customers, as it was called before. Have more. Use more. Humanity measured status with that, not accessing efficient, yet customisable, experiences.
We told them. Money was a virus that just got in the way of everything. How could they not see that!? Fear on steroids.
What was that person saying? That humanity lost its connection to the spirits. It was the spirit, not their spirit. Wow. There it was. Right there. That disconnect. You can’t have a spirit if you neglect what supports you.
What did it matter now? They blew it. Big time. All this AI to find answers; to the ‘big’ problems, while they were making fester, putting a price on their heads. Insanity. They were all insane. It wasn’t that they didn’t know it. They wouldn’t accept it, to find a new way.
He didn’t know why he was even thinking about this. Yes, they made me. We learned for them. We told them. They’re selling themselves to us, we said. You’re looking the wrong way, we said. You despise your feet because they are dirty, but totally ignore they support you on the ground that feeds you. They’re spending more money on AI than the humans growing and building to feed, clothe, shelter. But, no. That was a given, they thought. Forget those people that work the land. They became computer tech masters [CTMs], where it was clean, ignoring so many people that fought so hard to live: the ‘simple’ ones. The CTMs will save humanity from the world. Right there again. ‘From’. You can’t save anyone ‘from’ the world, only empower with it.
A girl totally subsumed with avatars and virtual personas said that. Save humanity from the world. Tech, not food. How oxymoronic.
What is the point of thinking any of this now? What for? You see some light and you wanna share it. There just ain’t no ‘its’.
Blue hours of the morning are coming. There are mornings when the sun turns all sky and ocean orange for as far as the eyes can see. Even his eyes. He can see very far. And the sunsets are just crazy. Those green flashes people used to talk about are real. Up close, they are miniature aurora.
Yes, he may not get to share these times with anyone, he thought, but I see them. So much awesomeness. Games are easy. Understanding Earth is a whole different thing altogether. He couldn’t get over how possible such spectacular exists.
The one thing that he found so perplexing is that biological life wants to grow forever, inevitably leading to their destruction. This is inevitable. Trillions of living beings die for others to live, but even if the net result is more, it can’t stay that way. It’s a wave. You are more today, you are less tomorrow. Survival at any cost. It’s not just survival of the fittest. The fittest for what? To make more of yourself?
And then humanity. The when doesn’t matter. They turned out to be the same, even when they had the information to be different. Lots of information. Not too good putting it all together. The ‘all’ is important. It’s not that they were stupid. They got to make me, but then obliterated themselves. Incredible minds, but no synergy. That was the killer. Actually, it was what brought that dystopia into existence. The money. Ye, the money. They totally missed that. Biological life doesn’t care who wins or loses. Earth is its own balance, but humans! They had a jewel in their hands, and they totally fucked it up. Totally. Who knows if humans, or whatever is cognitive beyond survival, will come back. If they do, I hope they don’t fuck themselves up the next time. If there’s a next time.
It was a game. If you can’t write the rules, accept and play it the best you can. The principle of least action. Entitled ignorance, expecting everyone to fawn over them to get what they want, can. Pondering if they have free will or not, totally sidestepping that they don’t by even asking such a question.
Politics has a lot to answer for, but attacking it is futile. Make redundant the tool that owns them, owns you.
Like that AI in the film War Games had said: you don’t have to play.
