It is true that choices without values will not yield much, but values without choices will also yield little. We need a complete range of options for the technical elements to unleash our full potential.
Technology provides us as individuals with the opportunity to discover ourselves and, more importantly, our future selves. Each person will have a unique combination of attributes throughout their life, including untapped abilities, manual skills, maturing insights, and latent experiences that others don't have. Even if the twins – the DNA is the same, the life experiences will not be the same. Success occurs when people get the most out of their various talents because no one can do what they can. People who live entirely on their own unique skills cannot be emulated, so we value them. By showing off your talents, you don't mean everyone going to Broadway to sing, or fighting at the Olympics, or winning the Nobel Prize. These compelling roles are just three traditional ways to become a star, and those specific opportunities are limited. Popular culture mistakenly focuses on celebrities who can prove themselves, believing that they are the benchmark for success. In fact, this kind of high status and celebrity status can be our prison, a tight spell that others put on us on the road to success.
The indiscriminate energy generated by the large ** is cooled down by the continuous expansion of the universe, and then aggregated into a particle-measurable entity. Over time, these particles condense into atoms. Further expansion and cooling allow complex molecules to form, which self-combine into self-reproducing entities. With each passing second, the complexity of these incipient organizations increases and the rate of change accelerates. Over the course of evolution, it has accumulated different methods of adaptation and Xi, and eventually, the animal's brain is controlled by self-awareness. Self-consciousness produces more thinking, a world of thinking that collectively transcends all the constraints of the past. This collective thinking will expand the imagination in all directions until it creates its own kind and exhibits infinity.
Now there is even a religious theory that assumes that God is also changing. This theory, known as process theology, doesn't dig too far. It describes God as a process that you can call perfect, if you will. In this theological theory, God is no longer a distant, immortal graybeard hacker genius, but more like an eternal unsteady state, a movement, a process, a basic self-generated phenomenon. The self-organizing mutations that are taking place in life, evolutionary processes, minds, and technological elements reflect the formation of God. God, as a verb, creates a set of rules and integrates them into the infinite game of constant self-regression.
The single line of self-creation connects the universe, living things, and technology into a single creation. Life is not so much a miracle of matter and energy as it is an inevitable product. The technological element is not so much the opposite of life as an extension of it. Humanity is not the end of the trajectory of science and technology, but the midpoint, right between life and manufacture.
For thousands of years, humans have looked at the organic world, or the biological world, for clues about the nature of creation and even creators. Life is a reflection of divinity. Human beings have a special status and are seen as being created in the image of the Creator. But if we believe that humanity came into the world in the image of the Creator, the Self-Creator, then we are not wasting our time, because we have created our own offspring: the technological element. Many people, including many who believe in God, will think that this statement reflects arrogance. Our achievements are insignificant compared to what has happened before humanity.
At this moment, let us remember the great deeds of humanity, the self-creator who has traveled through the Ice Age, standing before the mirror of science, seeking the truth and feeling its magic. He wasn't here to know himself or just look at his rough appearance. He came because he was essentially a listener and an explorer, seeking to find a great kingdom that he could not reach. It's an anthropologist and writer Loren Eiseley's meditation on what he calls the "long journey" that humanity has so far struggled to take.
Excerpt from Chapter 14 of Kevin Kelly's What Tech Wants.
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