Nelson Mandela on Democracy 1994 Inaugural Address (Pretoria, South Africa) “Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement.”

‘The biggest miracle of the universe is a few pounds of moosh inside our skulls and yet it is one of the most complex objects in the universe. Our brains are incredible, efficient and phenomenal machines. Building Artificial Intelligence & comparing it to the human mind will unlock unique mysteries of the mind that we’ve pondered about since the dawn of time & humanity. We will develop a better understanding of consciousness, dreaming, creativity & emotions.’ Thoughts from Demis hassabis exploring the exciting unknown frontier of Artificial Intelligence on The Lex Fridman podcast, episode 299 dated 01 July 2022

Human beings discrediting the intelligence of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is akin to Monkeys in lab coats judging a toddler figuring out how to peel a banana. AI is the worse it will be today because it will only get better tomorrow.

There will be a generation native to decentralized technologies, AI, robotics and quantum that will study present reality through a historical lens and be absolutely aghast that humans would burn & cut down trees to communicate & transfer daily information. They may romanticize the tactile nature of our methods like holding a book or feeling the grain of paper as a lost art much like we cherish vinyl records or Polaroids. Still, their lens will be shaped by their own tech’s limits which future generations might too find primitive.

On July 13th 1958 , The New York Times reported on ‘The Perceptron’ an electronic device that could mimic the human brain. It introduced the foundational concept of neural networks & machine learning. It could learn & compute but only in a very narrow mathematical sense.

When studying mathematics & specifically differential calculus one would ponder ‘why’ the functions do what they do? This exercise, despite beneficial for the brain distracted the mind from solving the equation. You don’t have to understand how a tool works to use the tool.

History has repeatedly shown the same pattern for innovative & disruptive technologies.When new tools enter the free market that threaten the monopolistic power structure,the no1 tactic to discourage its use by the market participant is psychological warfare in the form of ‘FUD’. New tech always faces FUD: 🚂 Railroads/Autos → unsafe & disruptive ⚡ Electricity → deadly, fire risk 🌐 Internet → scam, fad, useless 🤖 AI → job killer, existential threat

Human Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence both process information. Processing information is a form of computation that occurs biologically in wetware or artificially in software. The substrate and mechanism for each differs but falls on the spectrum of “thinking”. The notion can be analogized to how an analogue & digital watch tracks time via different substrate and mechanisms however both function as tools to keep time & both are labeled as watches.

When a human being looks at an object, he/she labels the object with regard to its appearance, how it stimulates the senses and its utility. Despite this, the human does not need to know what the object is fundamentally made of, to derive meaning from its macro-state. A computer is able to assess the structure of a sequence of numbers, words or characters and derive meaning from the positioning of these elements (items, tokens or complex objects) in the sequence without ‘knowing’ what the element fundamentally is. Consciousness and Computers approach understanding in different but oddly parallel ways.

If consciousness had access to all knowledge & understanding of the universe it would see that every system and structure in physical reality can be compressed & expressed through geometrical patterns & mathematical algorithms. Never stop using your imagination,curiosity & intuition to question the algorithms & patterns that shape your human experience & awareness of the world. Is it adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing your soul.

“The area that AI is having the most impact in education is not in the classroom but outside it. It equalizes access for all children to “adult” support. There are many students in the world who do not have access to a quality teacher, private tutors or parents that can help. Now with an AI companion, every student can receive encouragement, feedback on their homework & writing with assistance tackling difficult questions.” OpenAI’s Head of Education, Leah Belsky

The problem with most people is they only perceive and conceptualize from their own perspective. You might not need new technology but many do. Somewhere, there are innocent humans in settlements without running water or electricity. For them, innovation isn’t a luxury; it’s empowerment. It’s a chance to participate on the global stage of human progress. For those shackled by poverty and hardship not of their own doing, technology can mean hope.

‘Mathematics is an open source protocol for communication. It is based on Rationality hence Ratios. Numerator over denominator. Language is an open source communication protocol used to convey meaning through words which is based on Metaphor hence Meta. A ‘word’ used to define something beyond words. One can say ‘Money’ is a word used to describe a concept that is ‘metaxu’ to Mathematics & Language.

We are so f**ked.

Social media for humanity is a tool we are still learning how to use for full benefit. It took us thousands of years to exploit the thermodynamic potential of Fire. As we evolve with social media, we realize privacy is important and that sharing everything is not conducive to a healthy standing amongst peers & society.However the profound potential of connection between minds not separated by space or time cannot be over or understated.

It will keep your spirit in good stead when preaching the techno gospel of any technology to remember this model to make sense of resistance. People can only understand from their limited perspective. Be kind, hopeful & patient.

Starlink’s mesh network of thousands of low-earth-orbit satellites offers a transformative approach to internet connectivity, providing high-speed, low-latency access even in remote areas. Its global coverage and secure data transmission capabilities make it a critical backbone for emerging technologies like IoT, autonomous systems, and real-time communication. As digital infrastructure becomes foundational to economic and social progress, nations or entities slow to adopt such technologies risk being left behind in an increasingly connected world. The convergence of AI, 5G, and edge computing with Starlink’s network could further amplify this divide.

Technology is a cyclic tool that interacts with every facet of civilization (religion, culture, science, language, economics, mathematics etc). Unfortunately entities have risen in civilization through the ages via coercion and manipulative strategies to capture Technology and use it as a tool for personal benefit and push certain agendas at the expense of the many throwing off balance between Chaos & Order.This is slowly changing as advancements in human ingenuity return technology back to the people. Vivat libertas🫶

‘Our first product is “Telepathy” that will be for someone who has lost the ability to command their body & enable them to be able to communicate with a computer & mouse to operate a computer with dexterity that will ultimately become better than the dexterity of human hands now. Our next product is “ Blindsight” for those that have lost their eye,optic nerve or born blind to enable them to see again, initially lower resolution but eventually higher-resolution and multiple wavelengths. So you can be like Geordi La Forge in Star Trek. You will be able to see in radar, infrared and ultraviolet. Superhuman capabilities, cybernetic enhancement, essentially. Along the way this should help us understand a lot more about consciousness. What does it mean to be a conscious creature.” Elon.Musk presentation on Neuralink 2025.

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man' drawing depicts a man in two superimposed positions within a circle and a square. The proportions are carefully calculated in an attempt to represent the underlying perfection of Man and to link him directly to the Universe. The relationship of the human form to a circle & square reflects ancient ideas - dating back to Plato, Pythagoras and earlier mystic traditions - which attempted to forge a link between Nature and geometry.