Artificial Human Evolution

There is too little realisation in the world that our personal phones and computer devices have actually now manifested into electronic extensions of our existence and being. We are the early and cheap versions of a future artificial symbiotic species.

You almost have an extra limb. You go in a state of shock when you feel it missing in your pocket.

This makes case for the argument that human species is accelerating towards a union/symbiosis with AI and creation of digital versions of ourselves that exist beyond our physical body presence.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a spiritual person. I believe in the existence of the spirit. I feel its existence and I call upon it everyday. It fuels me towards my vision. And even my vision manifests because of the nature of my soul and spirit.

But I’m also a nerd to some extent when it comes to technology. And I strongly believe that there is another dimension of presence manifesting and breeding itself through the “Last Human Age” steering towards a true digital Artificial Symbiosis of our species.

You can see the pretty obvious traces in the form of our digital presence in the social media world. Imagine yourself explaining a person from 20 years back the concept of living beyond physical death vaguely in the form of a Facebook or Twitter account. In the form of your photos and videos in the cloud. You exist as an accessible digital asset in the cloud. Forever. Already.

The only difference between a future state of Artificial Symbiosis : Human Mind and Artificial Intelligence sharing an Interface and the Present Timeline : Smartphones as a Digital Extension is our current human incapability to incorporate our advances in Computing Technology with our Human Anatomy : particularly of the brain. And we are filling that hole in our information with a serious acceleration. Point in case is Neural Networks, which are basically crude models of our brain, and are getting amazingly better at detecting and even generating data with every algorithmic iteration.

But the process is the same. There is an automated “Render Pipeline” that we have created for ourselves. Suppose you are asked to calculate 45782 * 52355 or quizzed on Geography. The current general pipeline starts with our brain generating a thought, and ends with searching for the answers on a digital web database of information that exists on an external hardware outside our physical body. In layman terms, we are too dumb for technology and dump all our difficult problems on it already.

All these advances are a step towards “closing the circuit”. Which means integrating the same digital web database of information with the human anatomy and eliminating the need for a hardware that exists outside the boundaries of your physical presence. Because you have to realise that beyond our spiritual presence, we and our activities are only a continuous result of electrical impulses running through our neurological systems. And like every other embedded electrical system or software you see being hacked by expert programmers and coders, we could very well hack our way into unlocking the next evolution of our species.

And I believe Elon Musk when he says that artificial symbiosis is the way our traditional natural evolution could be able to understand, contribute to and cope with an entity bound to be more sentient and intelligent as we step into the future.

THOUGHT : Exactly right now, you could very well be a future version of yourself accessing a perfectly laid out crystal clear database of memory from a saved mental state 15 years back. Although there is a probability you would have a conscious realisation of this leisure activity from your future actual state, which in theory decreases the probability.

Also, if you haven’t heard and want to develop related technologies on really a granular level, OpenBCI is an open-source brain-computer interface platform you could very well use to already develop communication between the electrical signals of your brain and external hardwares by just, in layman terms, “thinking”. The efficiency is not the most optimal but these technologies together set a precursor for the greater times to come when traditional Cognitive Language strategies that we as a species have developed over many ages would no longer be required since we’ll be communicating our mental thoughts directly via fucking Bluetooth (Airdrop for iOS).

Right now, when we have a thought, we have to highly decompress it and hence, lose great information to be able to convey it in an inefficient and incomplete Language system developed by our ancestors. Imagine just streaming your whole mental thought in its raw and uncompressed form to another person. There would be no need for talking. The communication would be pure in its true sense. And you there would be no space for misunderstandings and misrepresentations anymore.

THOUGHT : Aliens(an unknown species) could very well be future humans. And this very well may be, since the Neanderthals from the past would never be able to identify with the current version of Homo Sapiens. And similarly we very well fail to fathom the future version of ourselves. The one major point of difference that holds importance here though is that now, we are strongly striving towards a hard-earned capability to catalyse our evolution ourselves and are too impatient to take the natural evolution take its due course.

I create through coding and writing. And this is a digital memory I’m saving for myself to access from my future own state of self.

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