When British futurist James Lovelock looks to the future, his vision for humanity is grim. He doesn’t foresee humans ruling the Earth. Instead, he believes cyborgs will rise up and end humanity’s supremacy as “prime understanders of the cosmos.”
“Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” Lovelock wrote in his new book Novacene, according to NBC News. “The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.”
Lovelock believes we are already living in the early stages of what he calls the Novacene, an era in which self-sufficient cyborgs, vastly more intelligent than today’s humans, will dominate the Earth. “The crucial step that started the Novacene was, I think, the need to use computers to design and make themselves,” he wrote in the book. “It now seems probable that a new form of intelligent life will emerge from an artificially intelligent precursor made by one of us, perhaps from something like AlphaZero.”
Lovelock told NBC News that the cyborgs could eventually modify the Earth to suit themselves, making humans extinct. However, Lovelock doesn’t think the cyborgs will actively attempt to destroy the human race. In fact, he believes we’ll be so inferior to Earth’s new dominant species that they’ll view us the same way we currently view plants.
It is an interestingly dystopian view of the future.
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In the Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, new beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and they will regard us as we now regard plants. But this will not be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet imagined by science fiction. These hyperintelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend them from the increasing heat of the sun as much as we do. And Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project.
No, cyborgs will not rule the world.
The end of industrial civilization is looming and those left alive after the end of the oil age will be scratching around in the dirt with sticks looking for bugs to eat.
Cyborgs can be EMP’d like any other electronics.
That will be the only salvation for Man from cyborgs, JRS. It’s the salvation spoken of in the Book of Revelation. Yes, it’s the same as the salvation spoken of by Jesus. Salvation is not just something for the hereafter. Jesus decried Man’s “wisdom” that thinks that Man is the Creator and that God’s real creation is chaos waiting for Man to impose “intelligence” on it.
The 2045 program is real but will men merge with machines?
More than likely the few attempts to merge men and machines will fail in the end, unless a higher level of technologies are created that allows for the new cyborg to self build.
Bottom line the first comment to this article is correct; the few humans left will scratch the dirt for food.
Even creating a life style similar to the late 19th century ( steam powered) maybe a dream.
If you want to a chance to survive you must start preparing now. Build your 5-10 program
You assume they need bodies 1:1 with their “consciousness”. Why’s that? They need enough bodies to repair their energy infrastructure, that’s about it. Bodies = automobiles basically. Go rent one for a day.
You assume they have to be terrestrial, why’s that…
That said I don’t think we’re anywhere near cracking sentience. I think they claim we’ve cracked “situational consciousness”, barely.
What do you want me to say? “Good”?
Good.
Maybe there will finally be a fucking POINT…
Cyborgs – POSSIBLY
However, I envision HUMANOIDS
These entities will be essentially humans in all respects except They will not have a human biological brain but an AI brain.
They will eat/receive nourishment for energy, deficate, have sex , emotions etc etc
They will not have reproductive capabilities.
They will have various levels, Leader/Management, scientists. medical, labors/workers etc.
Biological humans will co-exist with the humanoids
WOOT! Human’s will finally have a BRAIN! No kids either! Damm the future looks great all of a sudden… 😀
I couldn’t coexist with any machine. If any machine came for me it’ll get destroyed.
Who needs to go to the movies, with Moore’s Law just live about two more decades and the dystopian SyFy comes to you. It makes one long for the comforting days of vacuum tubes.
It is all part of the so called ‘Transhumanist Agenda’.
Most sci-fi movies / TV shows now have an element of consiousness transferal – blatent or subtle.
Blatant examples include the movie ‘Avatar’ and the TV series Stargate Universe.
More subtle examples are just about everywhere – keep an eye out.
Transhumanism examples of one form or another are being shoved down our throats at every opportunity (and have been for over a century) – with ‘Superheros’ and ‘mutants’ and ‘cyborgs’ and ‘AI enhanced prothestics’ now everywhere and promising us the ‘next step in evolution’.
It is all a big trap – for the Human Soul / Spirit (downgraded in popular culture to simply ‘conciousness’).
The classic Youtuber ‘The Underclass Guy’ did a great video or two on this subject. If I can find them I will post links.
Link to one of ‘The Underclass Guys’ videos as promised, however this example is perhaps only for Christians as there are more than a few strong Biblical references:
https://youtu.be/UUOi5kAcFV8
Yet another infromercial, with links to book on Amazon.
This fear of being under AI control is stupid, why would they want to build machines at millions$ per unit, when they have 7.2 billion people, some will do the job for a dollar a day.
Stupid animation too, just like 100% of the shit coming from NASA, stupid animations, and the MSM reports the animation images as if they were real and factual.
Yet another infromercial, with links to book on Amazon.
This fear of being under AI control is stupid, why would they want to build machines at millions$ per unit, when they have 7.2 billion people, some will do the job for a dollar a day.
Stupid animation too, just like 100% of the shit coming from NASA, stupid animations, and the MSM reports the animation images as if they were real and factual.
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” Revelation 13:11-18