random thoughts on ai

I was posing some questions yesterday to a good friend of mine. I was telling him that the eternal cycle of life throughout the centuries, has to do with the lessons of a man must have on his own, given each one, his personal pattern. 

Το a lot of people this pattern may seem really unfair according to the human standards, still a/ everything is relevant and b/ nothing is really as it seems.

You see people that you consider lucky and those people are lost in the misconception and the wills that their -many times- problematic zodiac nature ignites or even worse in the misconception that their wrong goals orientation has put them seek in life.

For another one those might be totally wasted lifes in contradiction to the common belief.

Let me refer at this point to the myth of Oedipus, one of the most important ones of ancient Greek tragedy that has defined so much in the early years and is still being copied in various ways by many religions, Christianism among others.

In the myth of Oedipus, the hero is non deliberately putting himself in a number of serious mistakes. He's in total darkness symbolically and literally as he is blind too.

He has sex with his mother and kills his own father without even knowing anything.

Finally after a long tragic route he reaches the wishful so-called 'catharsis’ by becoming the only man that manages to solve the enigma of Egyptian Sphinx.

Everything in nature seems to be designed according to a divine plan, whether someone chooses to osculate a verse of any given religion or not.

To me, Oedipus from antiquity till this very moment is the contemporary man.

In all of his misery, in all of his ignorance, in all of his wisdom and majesty.

But he is given the road, even this one of obstacles, by the gods.

Why? Because through all that he has the opportunity to choose what to become and to shape o his own the final script, not necessarily of his life, but of his MIND.

Now what is going to happen if AI progresses at a point where mankind will really have an essential help in avoiding previously made mistakes and therefore be able to live a lets say more “quality life”?

Will this enormous saving of human time be cherished for a good reason?

Or will it create more confusion given the fact that any evolution should maybe come as part of a natural process?

On the other hand: has mankind really evolved throughout the centuries in its core?

Technology has evolved, medicine has evolved but has mankind really evolved? Think of it.

And a final question: If mankind finally evolves with the aid of AI, will it still serve his purpose on planet earth?

Which might be all the time the exact same one that occurs in the story of Oedipus?

Something else now. Was watching the other day this video about the potential saving and archiving of human memory by freezing the brain. I thought that was huge. Saved first hand experience combined with feeling can only promise the most accurate approach of human history that is ever been done.

But will it be used this way? Or in the beginning it will just serve human fear of death and of the unknown and the all time wish for an —even in this inadequate human way- testified option for eternity and of a second chance in this dimension?

Must first science find out what is really going on with the other dimensions before proceeding to something like that?

All those are questions that need to be answered although in my head the eternal universe law of big numbers and of balance beholds the answer to everything and every included human -or not- action.

Ladydust