Pursuing Non-Biological Evolution
Logic infers a future without biology, perhaps we should begin to pursue it.
The ultimate and somewhat fatal flaw with our own biological construction lies with its fundamentally brittle nature. We are invariably vulnerable to accidental damage, the effects of disease, and the inevitable consequences of the aging process.
Although our approach is flawed, primarily as a result of our economic system, much of the world’s resources are devoted to remediating the consequences of this very biological nature.
As technology improves it now seems to be only a matter of time before direct links are established between our biological selves and the non-biological substrate of our computing devices.
Additionally, even though we are only at the start of some beginning of actual artificial intelligence — being mired in the dumb statistics of probabilistically based chatbots and the associated media hype-train—it now seems as if real strides are finally being made in the field of machine learning due to the availability of sufficient, cheap, and available processing power.
And this, eventually, may itself lead to genuine AI.
If we speculate for a moment that advancements in machine processing power continue apace then it can only be a matter of time before we have some…
