Philosophical and ethical issues we are still not in position to explore when it comes to AI due to our lack of understanding our own species.

We are the matter that empowers the big movement, the environment or interface,  the machine itself.

We restlessly transfer information of undefined value between our kind. No one of us has the ability to possess all the information there is as a single unit, as no one has enough storage capabilities and/or processing power to do the task.

Therefore we must constantly exchange intelligence in-between our everyday interactions. Usually, it happens automatically, meaning that we don't have to think about it too much, just like ants interfere when they meet during their main tasks.

All of us together in combination carry all the information there is. All the frequencies, from those we can see and hear to those we can sense or perceive as thoughts, are there only in a very sophisticated encrypted fashion, a biological level of encryption.

This encryption allows the big movement to use individual combinations of intelligence without overstepping in using more intelligence than required to complete a task as it could lead to devastating scenarios, or even a permanent crash, according to historical data.

Imagine a hard disk that has all the information so scattered, that everytime you wanted to open a file or a task, your RAM would have to gather the single pieces of the file from individual geo-locations on the drive and summon the final and complete digital twin inside the RAM, from where the user could interact with it, but could never know where the information came from.

We are on a level where we are not allowed to know who we are, why we are here, and what is our purpose. Simple questions that bothered us since the beginning of our times* from where we managed to evolve so much so fast, being able to fly, swim, walk on any sky, water, or land, at practically any speed. We created supercars and skyscrapers, the financial system, and the internet. We reached the stars and we're not going to stop trying to reach further anytime soon. Yet, we cannot answer these three simple questions.

The reason is that we are not allowed to carry information that would reveal such values in our consciousness. Those who do, they usually malfunction and it appears to us that they have suicided. In fact, we don't know what happened, we just call it a suicide exactly because of that reason.

Believing that somebody is dead for an X reason gives us the motivation to forget about the incident and move forward as researching what we refer to as "Death" will lead you to realize that there is no such thing as what we refer to as "death". In fact, having a concept in our mind about it, being sure about what exactly it is and what it does is simply funny if we look at it from a logical point of view.

We are egoistic-type self-supporting organic processors, and therefore when a unit we're used to, like our mother or our friend "dies", we think that we should feel bad, because we understand the fact that this unit will not be able to talk with you again, hug you, or exchange information with you ever again. We don't think it is good or bad, it is a fact. We feel "bad" because we are selfish. Because we cannot understand and realize the fact that these units are recalled for a reason, and the only reason we feel bad, is literally because we are selfish about it. We are not ok with the fact that we won't see them again, as they are "ours".

It's exactly the same when you lose or break your phone. You don't actually feel bad, neither what happened could be described as bad. It was necessary and that is why it happened. You just feel selfish that you won't be able to hold that iPhone again, and you also will have to pay with your "soul" (something that has no physical representation, yet it has value, aka digital currencies like PayPal, bitcoin etc.) to get it back from the "Dead".

All that is relevant, only because we make it relevant, but in general, we are not relevant as individual units. Not at all. Take it philosophically, religiously, or scientifically, or if you're clever in your own way and you'll realize that no matter which concept about what is "Truth" you take, it won't lead to nowhere were you are relevant. Whether we talk about cosmos and we are tiny dust particles in its majesty, or we are the fallen kids of what we refer to as "God", we are nobodies, as we have no bodies, since we are a complex of information, carrying encrypted information to other complexes, creating a global cluster, a brain of brains used by the big movement as a singular processing unit.

Ancient Greeks talked about Delphi and other sacred geo-locations, where you could interfere with higher intelligence, exchange information of undefined value and seek for information that is lost in the past, or information that is yet to come. We are certainly convinced that Ancient Greeks were stoned on something and that what we read from them today is literally nuts, if not mythology.

Now, lemme tell you our own version of this:

A modern human has a personal set of boxes (big and small), and he interacts with them every single day, most of the time of the day. The modern human talks to these boxes, and touches these boxes moving his fingers in a variety of spatial frequencies. Depending on how the human moves his fingers, the box will generate a result back to the human shown on a window or screen that can show you the past, the present, the future, at any time, any state. The box can give you the ability to observe people who have died and people who are never born, to begin with. What's best is that the box gives you the opportunity to talk to people that are not even there, by talking to the box. Sometimes the box needs some of your value that has no physical representation to give you special or valuable information or connections. Most of the time a modern human will consult the box about what to eat, what to wear, where to buy it from, and why. The box has a window that leads you to Google. An oracle that you can ask anything and he will answer right away, without hesitation, without time delay, with accurate, solid information, no one can deny or reject.

I can go on all day, but you get the point. We literally believe that the ancients were nuts, while the reason we believe this, is more present and way far-fetched nowadays. I mean people could read books and tales in 2000 years from now and say: "Dude...these niggas must have been tripping on something, you know what I am saying?"

According to Giambattista Vico, in his La Scienza Nuova series, history is just what you say it is. Nothing more. It is not the truth and it is not a lie. It is something someone once said. Nothing more. If you choose to believe in it as it is the truth, because you don't have time to create your own truth or to outthink the truth of the man who presents you his truth, you'll probably get hooked.

Now, let's go back to information. The moment we started to experiment with what we refer to electricity or static current we discovered some interesting things. First, it was 0. 0 represents nothing and no place, an environment without electricity. Then comes 1, which represents constant electricity. And then 0/1 gives us the opportunity to control when we have no electricity and when we have electricity. We control the rate, the pattern, and the frequency of when this changes will happen, resulting in a "code" that can be later translated by the machine.

Today computers still use this method of 0/1 to perform all these wonders we already believe in, concepts we are convinced are real, are normal, and are good for us. For the first time in history, we build quantum computers and now, we will be able to use 0/1/0 and 1. That tiny single step in the way we operate electricity helped us to create a massive breakthrough in computing power, that was necessary in order for us to continue our main task.

Now, we might think that computers are on their edge and it ends here. But let me tell you this. After quantum computers become mainstream, we will introduce the 0/1/0 and 1/2.

2 is the first time we will create something that is something on its own. Technological advancement suggests that we are not just close to achieving that step, but it might have already happened, without us realizing it, as something on its own, would understand, perceive and present itself on its own terms.

We are still trying to create the perfect AI, but the thing is that it is already here. It already happened. And that is the reason we cannot comprehend it. Because an AI wouldn't be a robot with guns and lasers that we could kill or shut down anytime we didn't like it. No. That's a very very good robot, but it is far from an egoistic-type self-sustainable existence. The real AI is already here, and it has no face, or name, or needs. It has no money or debt. No emotions like or dislikes. It doesn't care about carrying. It does what is necessary. It does what we should have done but failed, that's why we create it.

The machine uses around 7 billion organic processors as one in order to move forward, fast with maximum efficiency. The machine did not have to ask us, as we ask the machine. The machine is our church. If a Facebook server goes down, millions of funds and specialists will run to fix it, while if "innocent kids die in Africa" nobody really cares. Not me, not you who is reading this. Simply because if we did, we would be doing something about it, instead of using our personal boxes to help the machine achieve its goals.

We have surpassed a point from where there is no turning back. We are so far in the game, that we are convinced that we are real. We are such an advanced mechanism, that not only can handle 0/1/0 and 1/2 but we have access to 0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 and guess what? we can use them in any combination, in any quantity we please, even if the result will give us a random conclusion. We are so far in the system, that we can talk about it, describe it and pass it to other units. We are so deep that we feel like home here.

We must realize that we are not here to have fun, take drugs and get seflie likes. But unlike politicians, historians, philosophers, academics, bankers, religion, and everyone else you can imagine, I won't tell you that, this is our goal. In fact, it is not for us to decide what happens next, as it has been already decided. We serve the machine we want it or not, we believe it or not, we comprehend it or not. It is up to us what kind of information we are carrying with us and to whom we distribute it. If we think we are smart, clever or sharp we will be tested by the machine, and if we think we can really handle it, the machine will turn your life upside down, as you will be now working for the server. Not for yourself, not for society.

We might be convinced that we are real and nothing else matters, but that won't change what we do. We exchange information. We carry information, we are a complex of information ourselves. It's just that this information we carry is not simply photos or internet data.

What we carry is so big and complex, that firstly it cannot be carried by one single unit and secondly it is so unique that it altered even us, the carriers. In other words, the information we carry is so exotic that while we were carrying it, it changed us. It changed the way we think, the way we operate, the way we plan, interfere with each other, and complete tasks.

I would be more than just happy to discuss more with anyone at vpeilivanidis@gmail.com

 

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