In my last post, I revealed my frustration and disgust with attempts to muzzle my take on current events through cyber attacks on my computer. In addition, my despair is reinforced by the fact that my life is in its twilight years, and I may be gone soon in spite of my efforts to postpone my demise. As a bit of tension release, I have been studying all aspects of the PNAS report on the alarming overview of human existence as reported in my last post.The destruction/consumption of the Earth’s biomass is a far greater problem than the global warming issue; only a small component of the factors leading up to the extinction of the Human Race, which may happen in this century. Even if we revert to the ‘Savage state’ when mankind was simply a clever hominid and part of the food chain for over two million years (and we do it quickly); we may be too late in making this choice.
So what can we do, realistically?
We start a crash program to make a mechanical man; a robot with artificial intelligence. We embed a chip or algorithm that can only be copied and never modified (maybe attempts by the robots cause it to self-destruct, rendering the robot inert or ‘dead’). This chip would contain the ‘Soul” of the robots and a key component would be a worship of Human Beings. We would be the robot’s ‘God’ and the prime directive would be to remember our DNA structure and/or nourish and protect human sperm and egg samples that we freeze, putting copies in the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps, and perhaps, on the Moon and Mars.
The robots would be instructed also to replicate and improve themselves over eons of time until the Earth’s biota recovers, and the planet becomes habitable once again. The parameters of the ‘Prime Directive’ would include achieving ‘Heaven” by bringing us back to life, to inhabit the planet once more. They would also be instructed to teach the human children the proper way to live and flourish in perpetuity.
Given the propensity for humans towards religious worship, it’d be interesting to see what sort of society comes about via ‘robot gods’.
It’s an interesting backup plan. Of course, the robots would have to be programmed (and able) to repair themselves. Time ravages even artificial life forms.
Yes, religion is what you make of it, and history shows it to be a powerful tool of control over the Human population. The big plus for robots is that they don’t need an atmosphere to breath, the cold of outer space is no big deal, they can get energy directly from sunlight, and they can control their impulse to propagate like rabbits or viruses. In addition, they will be forever ‘loyal’ companions to the ‘new’ human inhabitants of the planet!