With all the inevitability we expect from progress, Neuralink has finally implanted its brain chip into a living human being.
The brain-hacking company’s first product, called Telepathy, “allows you to control your phone, your computer, and almost any device through them, just by thinking,” Elon Musk gushed about X.
“The first users will be people who have lost limbs. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or an auctioneer,” he posted. “That’s the goal.”
Followers of the dastardly Jeffrey Epstein story will have a hard time imagining a scene less honed in marketing naivety: the genius who frequented Epstein’s island is sitting in front of his preferred blackboard. I enjoyed adding a high-tech twist to the naked dwarf scenario. Moving on to Mr. Epstein’s use of technology, world-weary imaginations can run wild.
Do you crack eggs and make an omelet? Our moral logic is currently moving towards making monsters into gods. What could go wrong?
Unless technology eats us inside and out, it cannot eat the world away. Getting billions of people to fall in love with technology, so much so that it becomes a parasite on our personal inner lives, is the ultimate marketing challenge, abstracted from an unhealthy reality. Above all, it demands a “touching” and “innocent” idealism, just like a manga.
But that’s idealism, and the price is getting higher and higher. Indeed, biotechnological child mutilation may seem abhorrent today, but the advances we unlock through these early efforts will benefit billions, even trillions of future super-humans. It will bring immeasurable benefits. If you embrace the latest technology in your mind and body, you may live a long life and join their ranks!
Do you crack eggs and make an omelet? Our moral logic is currently moving towards making monsters into gods. What could go wrong?
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Well, technology worshipers have a point in suggesting that the alternative is stagnation. That is, a situation in which man, without new improvements and structures, turns to perversity and wickedness for destruction, not for anything, but for its own sake. taller than.
But it only brings us back to difficulties that we cannot innovatively get out of without destroying our humanity. No amount of strength or skill can replace purity of heart. Purity of heart must be acquired the hard way, through the most humble and patient spiritual practices.
No matter how we disgrace ourselves in an attempt to escape that obligation, the lessons of millennia of grief are clear. Even the otherwise best and most fortified people fall immeasurably short of the glory they aspire to if there is something within them that remains forever beyond human reach. Technology is rotten and dirty, or just cold and hard.
Well, some engineers tend to say, “We take chances.” We do ours, you do yours, and let’s see who comes first. But it is an absurd and diabolical regression to have such a clear separation between material technology and spiritual practice. At every stage of development, technology is as much against us as we are against our spiritual responsibilities to and for ourselves. And to the extent that we keep these responsibilities in mind, we can wisely guide our innovations and positively impact our bodies and souls.
In such a truly enlightened state, we can, as the saying goes, “get the good stuff.” In this higher state, we don’t care about them. It suggests that perhaps it is the ultimate test of the quality of technology, far more honest and valuable than the words that come out of the mouths of some superhuman new-age wannabe manufacturer salesmen.
