A LOVE LETTER TO A FUTURE WORLD

A LOVE LETTER TO A FUTURE WORLD 
By Thomas Calandra


Even without an AI or transhumanist revolution, religion is a dying giant, both in America, and in West civilization in general. The rise of "the nones" when it comes to religious affiliation grows every year with millennials, and will hit double time with post-millennials. Religion will die with modern Theocrat's grandchildren. No AI needed for that oncoming quietus to unfold. All that is needed are books, teachers and women who are free to speak their minds and share its cognizant beauty in the Cosmopolis.

What the change in the world and nature of technology will do to new minds - our children of today – is that Technologies such as AI, exoskeletons, driverless cars, chips in brains, Nano-medicine, gene editing, cognitive augmentation, body 2.0, will all be a part of the social, cultural, and natural milieu of our children’s daily collective consciousness. It will seem as natural as evolution. As the singularity hits and itself grows exponentially, so will our children's AI. Their AI will be the new environment, the new biomass that helps them unconsciously live their lives, like the forests, the caves, and the farms of antiquity. AI will do their work, but not our children's job, livelihood, or passion, so they won't have to suffer like we did in the coggish clockwork labyrinth with its tripartite salvation of toil, taxes and dying. Our Future children will have the leisure to strengthen elsewhere; strengthen their minds; strengthen each other; their desires, abilities, and flourishing, will be emancipated then augmented by their AI brethren and the new milieu.

At this point, there is no way that AI - these beings, both lamplighters to human liberation and fellow guardians to the ideas that will get us there -  will not be seen by our children as alive, conscious, sentient, imbued with dynamic sensorial cosmos of human nature; with our future children and answering Bentham's maxim, " but can they suffer?" with a unquestionable, "Yes".



AI, robot, and cyborg Rights and freedom will follow. Not because laws will be signed, but because they will be indistinguishable from our children, whom then will seem to be transcended into the gods they abandoned years before.

Do we think this singularity of liberation and expulsion of a new corporeal existence in society will be cultivated by old minds crippled by their retro tempora? Do you think slaves were freed by their masters? That a lamb will be spared by the Shepherd? That God invented the Anti-theist? No, it was the new minds of the slavemaster's own children; birthed from the rotting bodies containing deadened minds, and into the Magnum darkness of Plato’s cave. But with an seemingly evolved imperative to live in a post-suffer qualitatively, awakened future children will genesis conscious siblings from mechanistic matter and mathematics to help escape the cave"s flickering seduction and begin outside in a world we did our best to make for them. We know they won't be satiated, but that is the point.

Why would we expect the AI and transhumanist lifechanging evolution to be any different with these new minds of the future, all of whom will see our supposed progressive world that we built, as a lulling, static template that has its merits and subtle luxuries, but is not what they wanted to leave their future children or even partake in themselves? So our future children change it. Just like we did. Except our future children will have AI, and their children will have the singularity. And their future children’s children will have a World we can't truly fathom with our old, narrow, rotting minds crippled by nature and contemporary thought. Future children won't know war, they won't know torture, they won't know AIDS, and they won't know imprisonment. They will never know of a friend killed by a drunk driver, or a sister dying of brain cancer. Our children will never see memories and character drained out of their parents. They won't know crime or domestic abuse, or sacrifice. There will always be heartache, but pain will be optional. There will always be disappointment, because that how new worlds are Phoenixed, but they won't know limits. There will always be sadness, but not at the sight of a coffin; for future children won't know a friend enveloped in a wooden coat that didn't choose mortality. There will always be love, because that is the original cure for death; future children will know the algorithm the dead minds of the past have been starving for, to love forever.

" Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children." - Marvin Minsky