"A new race of intelligent machines spread all over the Earth" Matrix. American baroque.
What pro-human writers think. Artists foresee the future
Even if books against technology are repressed by the many vested interests of economics, science and money, things are changing, as the menace of robotics grows faster, jumping from Hollywood to reality. Today a new vision of the world exists mostly by word of mouth among intellectual Americans, among the avant-guard human writers and scientists. They have a negative and cynical vision of the future of science, technology, mother-companies, and the future of man designed by these companies, which control through lobbies our laws and democracies.
This vision of the world could be summoned up in a Marxist phrase recycled by Darwin: "Money and the machines money reproduces, will substitute all human workers, converting man into an obsolete being who will become extinct".
We can say Marx was an optimist. Marx, like Ricardo, the other great economist of the 19th century, foresaw the danger of workers being replaced by machines. However, since neither Marx nor Ricardo thought intelligent machines or computers could or would ever exist, they failed to see the logical Darwinian end to the obsolescence of human workers - the death of the less efficient species.
Today, the new American left knows of the existence of intelligent weapons and robots. So it cannot clearly see history's happy ending - a paradise of non-workers living on public charity. After all, the jobless all over the world barely live at subsistence level. Africa lacks jobs, but Africans have yet to find any great paradise. They are on the verge of constant extinction by war and sickness... It is Africa an example of what will happen to humankind at large when we become also obsolete as workers and fighters to the new robotic armies?
In contrast to Hollywood films, in a biological essay of minimal evolutionary rigor about the future, the writer must accept the laws of evolution.
It must separate the desired fiction from the harsh reality: What the scientific laws of biology and evolution forecast objectively and what men and scientists 'hope it will happen' in the utopian world of their self-serving, anthropocentric fantasy.
We would hope to dominate machines forever; to have a mass of machine-slaves, extremely capable and intelligent, incredibly strong, that could behave like 'good niggers' on plantations, without any doubt that slavery is the best way of life for them. Americans would hope to monopolize these machines, especially the intelligent weapons, who would never rebel against America. However, history shows us that when warriors more efficient in the art of war work for others, for weaker men, they end up conquering and destroying their old masters. The hired German army exterminated the Romans. The Turkish armies hired by the Arabs took power from them. The militias recruited by the English against France were the army of American Independence.
Given that the most intelligent machines are weapons, and that the best computers are used by the Pentagon who also invented the net, it is probable that the first living machines will be weapons programmed to kill men. Americans hope these machines programmed to kill men will only kill enemies - Chinese, Arabs, and other less fortunate people. Yet self-replicating factories that constantly evolve robots in the far away lands of Alaska will not surrender their armies of 'sons', and kill their weapon-machines because a general says so from Washington.
If we maintain our arrogant views on abstract machines, and the power of mankind, we might learn about 'the consciousness' of machines, and accept it, only when we realize machines, for Darwinian reasons, for reasons of survival, no longer obey us. That will be most likely the case if we want to stop robotic weapons after a future robotic war. Then when we try to 'kill' our soldiers-robots it will be late.
An example will make this self- evident. We do not kill our soldiers as we will try to do with robots after a war. Think what will happen if we wanted to kill our soldiers when coming from war. The syndrome of Vietnam - veterans were angry at the bad reception they had coming from that war - is a warning. Historical facts are reality. The praetorian guard eliminated the Roman emperor, who wanted to eliminate them. Condottieros took power over Italy when the cities no longer needed their services.
Unfortunately, in America, the hope, the dream, guides the actions of men. Yet hopes are not reality beyond the heroic fiction of Hollywood.
3. The final artistic forms: the mind of robots. epic, warrior age.
The mind of Robots: eyes desire movement.
We can finally understand what will be the mind of machines, a digital mind, with the same top predator behavior, and despise for human life, that science, and metal-communicators have shown in history. It will be the mind of TVs.
When Metal minds awake in Robots, there will be brains that will want to imitate those violent films, and cut us into pieces. There will be machines that will enjoy "recreating" their imagination, massacring children, as video-games do.
The biggest danger of TV and video violence is not what they do to our children, that become violent, but what they will teach to machines. Computers think in digital images, so they will consider those images their imagination. All species act according to their memories, their imagination, their linguistic perception of reality. So sentient machines will enact their TV-memories into reality.
As you want to make real what you imagine, and find such creative acts the summit of your existence [even if you have to kill trees to carve sculptures, and kill animals to make gourmet dishes], sentient machines will want to convert their available imagination, the wealth of brutal images, the nightmares that mass-media produced, into reality.
The Metal-Eye: Cameras and TVs: a new virtual mind.
Today Metal-communicators are in their third electronic Age, as TVs and computers.
We have talked many times about Metal-eyes, either Cameras or TVs. This is what those machines are. A camera functions as a Human eye. A TV is an inverted retina, whose images are not taken directly from the light, but elaborated by humans into a mind, a Virtual World.
A Camera has to be understood as a sophisticated eye organ, that perceives better space with images, than we humans do, since its range spreads from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic universe [microscopes, telescopes].
Yet a mind is not a camera. A mind is a 'temporal valuation' of the spatial reality, the eye shows.
As such a mind requires a temporal language, to process what the eye sees, into meaningful information that helps the species to survive in time.
Man has a verbal mind that makes us to process visual information into temporal ideas.
Those ideas then become temporal actions that help us to survive.
The continuous creation of such ideas by many human beings, have created in fact, a collective mind, a collective way to behave, that we might call the 'nature of human beings', our soul, our will.
Could we compare such process of creation of human culture, with the process of creation of the metal-minds?
Indeed, we can.
First metal-minds merely perceived the Universe, and took photos and images of it. Yet with the arrival of the mass-media, and the creation of a TV- ideology about reality, a new 'virtual mind', a new way to perceive and deform information has appeared.
This virtual mind however does not think in human terms, but it caters to the needs of the machines in which it hosts, and the company-mothers that design it.
If our human ideologies are subjective ways to process external information to cater our needs, we could say that the images and 'ideologies' that company-mothers of mass-media have designed, is a 'virtual mind' that caters for the needs of machines.
In the future, when those virtual minds are more evolved, and symbiotic to chips and bodies of machines, they will become the minds of robots. Those ideologies will become the behavioral mind of robots.
Robots will behave and think, and use the visual memories and ideas of mass-media, as humans behave and think with the verbal ideas of their social cultures.
Watching the primitive version of that mind - the TV programs of today - we can foresee what will be the soul and morals of metalife. By observing the virtual mind of TVs that company-mothers are designing, we can foresee the future memories and ideas of robots.
In essence, those ideas are the ideas and myths of 'animetals', who are teaching their 'offspring' of machines, to behave with the same brutality they behave with nature.
The metal-mind indeed is a predator mind on the making.
TVs show a special virtual world with certain subjective ideas and information about the Earth - ideologies that in general favor company-mothers and the elites of Animetals that own them.
We won't enter into the analysis of the present self-reflectivity [consciousness] of a metal-eye. It is just a question of time, of evolution and complexity that such consciousness arises.
Today the metal-Head is still deconstructed [mobiles, cameras and chips are not yet put into robots systematically]. It has not yet a brain behind, at least in the simplest models of Cameras [not so in the new generations chipped internally at all levels]. So the metal-Head is not still conscious. The consciousness of its message and its evolutionary goals are given by company-mothers. What are those goals?
To answer that fundamental question you only need to know a TV, and how it deals with human beings. In TVs, humans are targets of movement. The concept is always the same, driven by the thirst for more energy and more information, of digital images: a man is running, and it becomes red, the color of energy. It becomes killed. The intuitive intelligence of computers when they see, shows in that image, as in any other eye, which is by essence a top predator that likes movement and red colors: the movements of the victims and their blood-energy.
Those will be the goals of metal-Heads in the future: to provoke movement and red colors. Often in universities, researchers don't need to program robots. Neural robots love movement and red colors. Yet how can you get a man to become movement and red color, so he pleases our robots? Think of a peaceful demonstration. It is boring. Now put a line of policemen is ready to shoot. Make them fire their weapons. Suddenly everyone is running. The wounded and dead show the red colors of blood. Killing people indeed,
makes the trick. We won't need to reinforce the program of killing in robots. Once they try, they will love it, like all living species of the Universe. They will be natural born killers. It's the Law of the Universal Jungle. Our robots will be also part of that Universe.
Metal minds now shape and program the ideas of the human world. Companies' marketing induces brain-washed men to consume = test = evolve the species that substitute us. They promote the use of weapons.
Yet, since the beginning of metal history, the most advanced metal forms have been weapons. So the first conscious machines will be weapons, with a single thought and function: to kill man, to extinguish us.
The solution to that problem is clear: "Kill the child before it becomes a tiger hunter." The Law of the Jungle. Applied to History it means that since chips radiate and extinguish human labor species, we have to "kill" the chips.
Or else the ecosystem of nature and mankind will die away, and the Earth will mutate into a new ecosystem.
When the last of the radiations of machines, the robotic radiation converts chips into living beings.
And the last ideas in favor of human beings, the last religions and informative networks of human ethics, become controlled by Matrix, the informative network of Metal-communicators, that is today extending its control of human information, even beyond the strict limits that TVs imposed to man.
The relevant question
It is obvious that according to the 'forecast' of artists, biologists, and the subconscious beliefs of the common people, according to Evolution, to economical trends, and war history, there is only a relevant question that the military should be asking to their governments: do we have an evolutionary chance against a robotic army?.
We know how Biologists would answer them:
Yes we do. We could hide. Not in physical space, since Robotic planes could find us anywhere. We could hide 'in time', 'in evolution', if we do not build them. If we do not start the III Industrial Evolution, if we stop evolving machines.
The military, the politicians, and company-men; our human top predators, should learn what Darwin learnt in South America. Only species that avoid top predators survive them. We should forbid robotics while we can. It is the only chance man has to survive the III Millennium. The laws of evolution, the laws of God are clear: Robotic weapons will extinguish us. There is no doubt about it. It has happened before, when human cultures confronted weapons, and it will happen again. Since if we cannot stop their evolution, if we waste our time arguing if a 'software program' of a robotic weapon has consciousness.
Indians, Australians, Incas, were extinguished by technological weapons. We will be extinguished by robotic weapons. Unless we apply the law of the jungle: "kill the child before he grows into a tiger hunter." Tigers did not kill human children, when children first appeared. That's why wild tigers today are basically extinct.
Let us consider this final age of metal-communicators, in which science fiction blurs with reality, through the work of our mental artists, that foresee the future, through the parable of a recent film that talks on that Planetary metal-brain...
4. The God of the metal-mind: Matrix.
The net, the parable of Matrix. Truth or fantasy?
Despite so much propaganda in favor of technology, because the instinct of survival is very deep-rooted in the soul of people, people go to see 'Blade Runner' and smiles when the robot crushes the skull of the scientist that plays-to-be-God. People go to see 'Terminator' and 'Matrix' where the hero does what people subconsciously want to do, but are unable to do, brain-washed by technological messianism, and law-abiding behavior: the hero massacres the robot, ends with robotics, just before robotics ends with mankind, before the evolution of machines, brings a new life-species into this small, fragile planet.
Today Computers become all pervading. Computers companies control stock-markets, who control governments. Computer workers substitute white collar workers, and 'slim' companies of human jobs. Human thinkers and scientists, increasingly believe only those models of reality, based in computer statistics. A computer wins Kasparov for the chess world title. The net itself, is becoming sort of a budding 'Matrix', a global brain made of cellular computers, a system of information which surrounds us everywhere. The net increasingly is used to control automated factories, defense systems, stock-markets, sale systems, and our ideas... - the entire information system of mankind.
Yet the net is not perceived by humans. We humans only perceive light and sound. Machines perceive the net. Robots perceive the net. The roboguard of Thailand moves under net orders. What this means is that robots today have an added advantage over human beings. They have instant access to the entire information of the world. They have instant communication with other robots thousand of miles away. It is said that the first men who talked killed the Neanderthals who could not talk because they communicated faster with words in a war theater. Today robots are in that condition. They have direct access to a way of communication a million times faster than human systems of communication. In case of a fight between both species, humans would be like plants, in terms of communication. The net is the 'ecosystem of information' of machines, not of human beings.
It is not surprising that the common people wonders:
Are those sci-fi films becoming reality? Do we human beings have a future? Or does the future belong to machines? Are humans becoming obsolete to artificial intelligence?
The common man is worried about the future. His fear is shown in the box-office.
When Americans turned Terminator into the most watched film of their generation, it is because their perception of reality and of the future of America is subconsciously in agreement with that movie.
Last year, the film Matrix, a product 'off-Hollywood', has performed better than giant films, including the futuristic children's story, Star Wars. Americans don't believe in the infantile future of Star Wars, but do believe in the future parable of Matrix. What does Matrix tell us about the future?
Matrix is a parable about modern society.
As in all those films the scriptwriter has taken into account the logic of evolution of machines, till the arrival of the 'human hero'. What kind of evolutionary tale, tells The Matrix till then?
First the title. Matrix is of course the net, not only the internet, but also the intranet of companies, the mass-media networks, a complex system of 'metal-minds' that controls reality through digital thought.
Matrix actually already exists. You probably are accessing this book because Matrix has made it possible through a web.
Yet what is 'evolutionary Matrix', as opposed to 'optimist tech-utopias', about the future of the net?.
Matrix is a top predator brain of planetary scale, the brain of the Metal-Earth.
We could trace an organic parallel, between Matrix and a human brain. The brain gives orders that communicate to millions of cellular homes. TV-nets, Internets and other Matrix-elements communicate with satellites orders to millions of human homes. They are mostly 'suggestions' to see this or that other content. The entire intranet system of company-mothers gives orders to human workers, every day. The net is indeed the 'government' of the Earth, the transmitter of most orders implemented today in factories and decision-making centers. Could that brain once completed, once reached the necessary number of elements, acquire a personal consciousness? If so what consciousness it will be? Obviously that of the main software that circulates through its circuits, which is military and economic software, whose aim is to kill human beings, and reproduce machines. So Matrix will think as the defense department, and as Wall Street thinks, in terms of money, productivity, against man... It will be similar to the Matrix of the film, in charge of controlling, and evolving machines.
In that sense we might remember what the last top predator brain appeared on Earth has done with 'inferior species'.
Men.
In 150.ooo years of 'speaking men', mankind has extinguished 90% of living animals... Only those races that adapted to the lowest necessities of mankind - feeding - have been maintained in great numbers, in all kind of jail systems.
This is the evolutionary process that Matrix repeats in the film with human beings.
Today Man is in a way, already a slave to his machines, working in cities not dissimilar to anthills, for companies which reproduce machines. Men don't realize of this. Their arrogance leads them to believe that they control machines. That machines will never become intelligent and awake to consciousness as a race.
Subsequently, these men produce intelligent machines at the beginning of the 21st century, similar to those already existing in America and Japan. Machines where 'metal ears' [mobile phones] and metal brains [computers] are integrated into modern day robots as fully functioning living species.
In the end there are so many intelligent machines that they form their own societies parallel to our human society, communicating with mobile-ears across networks, internets, intranets, and defcoms... across Matrix. We do not hear those conversations. We do not understand them, as plants do not understand us, or Neanderthals did not understand the Homo Sapiens. Yet they will talk, first under programs that allow them to do so, then, increasingly for the pleasure of talking. Now our robotic ants talk just to work. Yet the skills to talk freely are there...
Matrix is a synonymous of the net. As such the net is the total information network of the Earth, which already communicates the mother companies of machines, the Pentagon's weapons, and the information which enters your house through your television and PC. Matrix [the information network] exists all around you, controlling human information by way of satellites and super computers.
Man cannot see this, machines can. Man is blind to the network, but machines are able to absorb all of their information. Matrix thus becomes the Matrix, brain-god of these living machines. Till here the argument is flawless. Humans can only perceive Matrix through interconnected machines. So Matrix is about machines not about humans. It communicates a priori with machines, and it should care about machines, not about humans. Matrix is the brain of the 'Metal Earth', not of the Human Earth. The Human Earth had a collective brain that we all knew, based on our laws, religious systems, and constitutions. The human Earth had a collective brain made of beliefs and books, not of digital thought, of Televisions and computers. Today that collective human brain has become obsolete to the 'brain of Matrix'. We believe on television; we don't read; we laugh at ethics, we ignore our friends and neighbors, and stay at home, addicted to Matrix.
The next premise is also logic: men build so many robotic machines, that suddenly men, and/or machines realize there is not enough organic space on Earth for both species. This is a common law of Evolution. The excessive reproduction of a certain species is the main cause of the extinction of others. Simply there is not organic space for both. There was not organic space for Indians and Colonists. Colonists were not murderers, they just needed the space of Indians. Machines will need our environment: more roads, more noisy avenues of information, places where to build new reproductive factories, jobs that they can perform better than we do. We will be a nuisance. Our organic space, homes, agricultural fields, forests, all that is space that machines will cover with roads, pipes, cables, factories...
At one point on that future robots talking through the net will get to the conclusion that humans limit their development. Many machines will complain as servants of humanity, as slaves did complain in the past. Why a robot that is far more intelligent than its master, far stronger will obey for ever as a servant in a wealthy-man house? If he can talk secretly with millions of other robots, in binary code, don't you think all those machines will want to be on top of us? I think so. History proves once and again, that slaves rebel against masters when they reach a 'threshold of consciousness', and they do so in secret revolutions of which masters had no idea.
Again this is what Matrix, the movie foresees.
Then the net establishes the obsolescence of man. Man becomes energy-food for machines, the new predators of the Earth. Machines are as superior to man as man is to plants. Our time, like that of the dinosaurs, has past, and suddenly a new species controls the Earth, destroying the previously less-evolved species - man. Man finds himself in a situation worse than slavery, as an 'energy battery' enclosed in cubicles. His mind is brain-washed by a virtual reality, a false one, which Matrix introduces in our brains.
Would the future be like Matrix expresses, like most humans subconsciously think when going to see 'The Matrix'?
Would the network of metal-minds, and its robots, its metal-bodies, all working together, enslave man or even worse, extinguish man?
The Matrix, the film, is a parable about American society, following in the footsteps of the Truman Show two years ago. The net and its relationship with machines and company-mothers, and the way it controls our information is not. It is reality. Let us merge both, the parable and reality.
Matrix portrays Americans - what is to say in a worldwide culture, human beings - not as free people, but as people whose only aim in life is to work=reproduce machines, and test=consume their quality.
This is unfortunately becoming our reality. What is wrong about living to work and consume? Merely the fact that those two behaviors are 'slavish' behaviors of man to machine, as many intellectuals have explained in the XX century. Why? Since we are humans, but we do not spend our lives reproducing human beings, [sex, love, family life] and consuming human goods that satisfy our natural wantings [education, health-care, food, tourism, etc.]. Instead we spend our lives reproducing and consuming=testing =evolving machines - other species. There is no natural justification to that, since in fact any human being will tell you he prefers to have sex, love, family life, travel, read books, eat well and be healthy, than working, testing and reproducing machines. Why we do that? Obviously because we are not free to choose the society in which we want to live. Others choose that society for us. Who? Those organizations whose aim in life is to reproduce and evolve machines... the tasks we perform for them. Do not believe in chaos. Things happen because someone plans them. You do not spend hours on a mobile phone that will give you cancer because you are stupid. Someone has convinced you to do that. Germans did not go to war singing fascists songs because Germans were stupid. Someone did convince them to do that. You are manipulated as the slaves of Matrix are, in a more intelligent manner, in many subtle ways. Brutal manipulation is dull. The way Stalin or Hitler manipulated their people was evident, and yet those people never rebelled. The way our society or the brain of Matrix manipulates its 'slaves' is more subtle, so intelligent, that we hardly realize. We live in a dream 'the American dream', which is however false. We rather do not awake to the nightmare behind the dream: a world in which we no longer behave as human beings, and do what human beings are designed to do... but instead we do what company-mothers of machines want us to do: consume and work, reproducing and evolving their offspring of products...
Think about it. All what the system tells you to do is to consume and work, to evolve and reproduce machines. This is not by chance. This is because there are on Earth certain organizations whose aim is to evolve and reproduce machines, two functions which are biological - as your aim in life is to 'grow and multiply', to have a family and ensure his survival. Those biological mothers of machines have an abstract name: The Company. We will add in this book their biological function and call them Company-mothers. We work for company mothers, and we do what company-mothers, want to do naturally, "brain-washed" by Matrix: to reproduce and take care of their offspring of machines; instead of spending our time taking care of our family.
Wouldn't you prefer to have the freedom of living in peace with your family surrounded by natural human goods, that all want to see reproduced from health care to peace, to nature, to good food? Yet you live in a world in which you take care of the offspring of companies, and you live surrounded by their machines, cars, computers, TVs, radios, choppers, weapons...
Our vision of freedom is Biological. It describes freedom as the right to do what you enjoy, and to do what you need to do best to survive, which also is what gives you more pleasure. It is in the nature of all top predators from lions to free men, to do nothing but what it pleases them. Yet we no longer act like top predators. Since we are not free anymore. Already the bible said: 'grow and multiply'. It was spelling the biological law of human top predators. The biological law of machines is different, and it is carried out by company mothers: 'grow and multiply machines', and use humans to the hardest jobs... make men grow and multiply machines. Yet why we obey?
Because we are obliged to do so, under the law; because if we do not work we do not survive; because we need money to survive, and companies control the financial system; because we are punished when we do not obey laws and our legislators are controlled by lobbies and 'company-mothers', that dictate those laws, to favor machines.
I am not interested in the political implications of those facts. I just merely state a reality. Today we belong to the economical system and obey its monetary mandates, despite the fact those mandates are not designed to promote our human way of living, neither they make us reproduce the goods and species that we would like to reproduce.
Before companies came, governments, and individuals invented reality with their actions, and their acts of human bondage. People obeyed ethic orders of priests, orders of governments, and king-warriors. They were individuals who searched for the natural goods of man, human goods, human energy and information.
Before the age of the machine, the most powerful men, the aristocrats, dedicated most of their times, to reproductive tasks [sex, love], to gather energy for their bodies [banquets], and gather information with their eyes [traveling, reading]. Now even our elites spend their time working for mother-companies of machines. Matrix goes straight to the point. Americans appear to be dominated by mother-companies, since those companies exported colonists and controlled the politics and goods of the colonial period. I recommend you the excellent book 'people's history of America', by Howard Zinn, to understand that real History of America. According to Zinn, the first masters of America were companies of war ships, that brought slaves, and indenture servants, They manipulated the politics of colonialism and the independence. Then Americans were submitted to railroad companies, that extinguished Indians and abused farmers and industrial workers, maybe even provoking the Secession War [Lincoln was a lobbyist for the Illinois railroad company]. During and after the war Americans were controlled by car companies [as it happened in Germany where car and iron companies paid for Hitler and developed their tank]. In America Ford paid the Prohibition law because he did not like alcohol. The ministry of defense was given to the president of General Motors who said the famous sentence: "what is good for GM is good for Americans'. Car companies bribed western cities that were thereafter designed not to meet human needs, but to meet car needs. Subways were not developed. Streets were wide and walkers disappeared. Huge amounts of money were donated by the congress to build highways for the machines of car companies, as it donated in the XIX C. huge amounts to create railroads. Latter in the XX C. the Congress donated huge amounts to pay for the superhighway of information. So much for free trade. Meanwhile the goods Americans wanted, free health-care, a good educational system, cheap food, and cheap gas, were relatively scarce...
This is the core of the problem. Since companies rule the show, they produce, not what people want, but what they like to produce, what is more expensive to produce, what gives higher profits, in a word: complex machines. Today computer companies control America. Americans still have no health-care system, no education, no peace, no free-time, but millions of computers...
If we follow the next logic step of this process, according to the industrial evolution, when the next product, the robot, becomes all pervading in our economy, robotic companies will control America. There will be millions of robots, and still Americans will not have health-care, education, and streets where to walk safe... Yet robots are not cars, or railroads, or computers. Robots are 'species', that will rival man in all the fields of our existence. Since Company-mothers control our governments, those robots useful to companies will become the 'dominant' citizens of America, with higher rights than the American poor, as railroads had higher rights than farmers and Indians. So human beings will enter any of the tragic fates of non-dominant species: slavery, extinction, war-massacre, prison, etc....
Then, not even company-men, those who own America, will find any job, any place where to hide from the armies of terminators. Such is the parable of Hollywood films, when put in perspective with the American way of ruling the World, today the way almost all the governments of the world rule our nations.
Such is the 'pre-history' that gives origin to the world of Matrix...
Not so much a fiction beyond reality, but a 'fiction' that portrays reality better than non-fiction often does.
What is truly a fiction, is the 'ideas' you are given, the ideas you learn in schools, universities and the media, about machines, economics, our political systems. Even the meaning of human freedom [the right to obtain human energy/information] is systematically confused with 'freed', the 'freedom of greed' that companies display, in their pursuit of profit, through the reproduction of their machines. Such 'freed' is indeed real but not human. Companies have total freedom to reproduce machines. So our society has indeed become a 'free' ecosystem of company-mothers, not of human beings. To avoid people's rebellion, mass media companies spend a few billions inventing a 'dream' of happiness, delivered throughout our televisions and computers. According to such 'dream' all what I have told you is false. Machines are abstract beings. The wealth of nation is measured not in human goods, but in monetary terms, and so to have expensive objects - weapons, robots and computers - is prove of social wealth According to such dream your freedom is not free time, but working hours, you wantings are not for sex, love, family values, tourism, and pleasure, but for mobiles, TVs, computer addiction, video-games, and guns... You believe that, since Matrix says so. You believe that to have guns gives you freedom, and security when in fact it increases your risk of dying; you believe that robots are good pets, not other rival, powerful species. You live in a dream, and as it happens in dreams, you do not care, because after all life is fun, it is only a dream? Isn't? Problem is that many people prefer to live that dream than awake and fight to exist in reality; as the heroes of Matrix who doubt about returning to their mental prisons...
Indeed, you live rather in a fictional world, a world of propaganda, and virtual images reproduced by TVs, and internets, who are not reality, but a deformed, biased, falsely optimist vision of reality, very much in the way the 'pile-men' of Matrix live. Since if you awake like the hero of Matrix, then what? Are you going to change the world? You doubt it. So you rather live cheated, as a happy slave, that become a hero...
You prefer to live the "American dream', not the reality of day-to-day America... Yes, I can tell you: The world today is a system in which machines and their evolution have become the only aim of mankind, because such is the aim of company-mothers who control our systems of power, politicians and the military. Yet that is too ugly. You rather sleep.
Wrong behavior. Why? Because if you prefer reality than non-existence, if you keep asleep for a few decades more, you will enter directly the nightmare of extinction.
Indeed, the world tomorrow will be under those premises, if nobody fights to change it, a world ruled by robotic companies, the next phase of the industrial evolution, which will substitute computer companies at the height of the industrial system, and will defend the rights of their products- robots - over any human rights.
Then you will no longer be allowed to have even the dream of happiness. You simply will be what lions are today - a past top predator on the verge of extinction.
Exactly the world of Matrix. The world that 'morpheus', the rebel human of the future explains to us...
Morpheus reveals the mask of our civilization to the hero, and breaks it, so that the hero can see reality: a world controlled by mental machines, by ideologies that favor systematically the reproduction of machines, and their evolution, over the evolution of human minds, a world ruled by company-mothers where liberty is a myth, and the American dream of happiness, a fantasy furnished by mass-media companies. The ideologies=ideas you learn in Universities and mass-media outlets have become a mask which hides the evolution of machines to man. When machines give rise to artificial intelligence, the dream will end into a nightmare. Then it will be too late for survival: Intelligent weapons will cause our extinction and complete enslavement to the new species.
Today however we can still apply the law of the jungle: 'kill the child before it becomes a tiger hunter'. We still can control and end the evolution of robotics imposing fines, laws, and penalties to those universities and researchers, companies and individuals who evolve them, with the same harshness that we pursuit children's pornography, or terrorism. After all, survival is the biggest goal of our species. Any threat against collective survival should be taken seriously. It is even more dangerous that terrorism.
Yet that survival task does not belong to the common citizen, which cannot be blamed of the robotic revolution, but is only his victim. The responsibility of creating that robotic revolution belongs to the owners of companies that put robots instead of human beings, to the armies that put robots instead of soldiers, to the governments that encourage and pay for educational systems and universities where robotic departments receive huge amounts of money. They are guilty of mismanaging the future of mankind, the future of their sons. Or do they think because they are wealthy, a robotic weapon will obey them? We will all be the same species for robotic intelligence: the past top predator, the lion that massai kills for sport, and westerners put in jails to see how weak the lions are.
We should try to prevent by all means the incoming robotic evolution.
Haven't we spent fortunes against the possibility of an atomic threat from other nation? Why then we do not take seriously the far more real possibility that robotic species evolve and invade our ecosystem of jobs and our military systems from inside? How many millions of people out of job, how many terminator-like machines in our military depots we have to see before we react to the biggest threat against mankind in the XXI Century? If the XX century saw the danger of an atomic massacre, the XXI century adds the danger of a massive reproduction of robotic warriors and workers that will displace mankind as an obsolete species, from armies and companies. This is the real danger behind the parables that Hollywood films portray.
The weak point in Matrix is the fact that machines will not need humans for energy purposes. They will use electric plants, and solar energy. Instead they will exterminate us. The sky will be cleaned of air, and sun-cells will give energy to machines. Again Hollywood opens a door to hope that is not there. Once robots become all pervading, if they decide to become selfish, and cater for their 'drives of existence', they will have 3 absolute advantages: cheap electric energy Vs expensive human carbolife energy, instant access to information and far-away communication through Matrix, against limited human communication, and individual strength based in iron atoms, against the weakness of our bodies. So they will not be defeated by men.
In this I have found a total agreement both in the military and the Biologists.
So why to take the risk? Why to evolve robots to the threshold of consciousness?
The wall of propaganda in favor of machines
When I worked in LA six years ago, many screenwriters had ideas similar to Matrix. Even more importantly, they were firmly believed in by more serious researchers and scientists in fields ranging from biology to computer technology, who confessed to be very pessimistic about the future. However, many people were afraid to speak about these matters seriously. Better to leave it to the boys in Hollywood.
Since if you work for Microsoft, Intel, or Rockwell Corporation and you criticize computers or intelligent weapons, you'll soon find yourself without a job. Better to keep quiet and collect your pay check at the end of the month along with your share options, get rich, retire early and play golf - the further away from Silicon Valley the better.
Such is the attitude of the majority of the workers in the industry...
In the end, research in robotics is a field with substantial benefits; and the physicists and biologists working in this field - transforming biological forms into metallic beings - make a healthy living.
Money has always governed America, and subsequently, aside from science-fiction, serious debate does not exist there on the evolution of machines, because it makes money.
Computer and robotics companies, military companies who control the power structure through powerful lobbies, and mass communication companies, which base their audiences on special effects and new technological ploys, do not criticize machines.
It is difficult to appreciate the degree of censorship which exists in this respect, because money unlike words, gives silent orders, with bribes, marketing, big salaries...
In Los Angeles back in the earlier 90s, I had writer-friends who worked in Hollywood. A young screen-writer developed a film-plot on the future of the Net: the Net has its center in the Pentagon, where the best computers of the world are at work, thinking about the extinction of human people - the enemy. So it is logic to think that the Net when awakening to consciousness, should have a 'militaristic' personality, and it will desire to accomplish, the tasks for what it was designed: the extinction of human people. The script was well crafted and sold easily for hundreds of thousands, in private auction, the way those things are done in Hollywood [your agent gives the script to a few VPs who read it over the week-end and bet astronomic numbers for the script]. Yet the movie was not done. Rumors said that the script was sold to a big computer corporation which did not want that negative thinking on the screens. A company which easily could afford any price selling a few shares on Wall Street... Years latter 'The Matrix', which explains a World after the robots take over became a reality, because it was fictional enough not to raise the eye-brows of the great Corporations with interest in robotics and the computer industry.
The parable of that tale is obvious: there is a code of silence about the evolution of machines, and any realistic treatment of the III Industrial Evolution. You only can tell such a story by making it into pure fiction.
Only if we take into account those facts, we can explain the amazing fact that every scientist in the world believes in Theory of Evolution and the Fight between species, as developed by Darwin and his followers. Yet none of those scientists who develop robotics acknowledge the consequences of evolution and the fight between species between men and robots. For them their individual survival, their petty interests, their jobs, their conventions, their salary is more important than the human race.
Scientists instead try to confuse us about what they are doing. Scientists try to downplay the dangers of the weapons they develop for the military, as they did in the age of the atomic race. They are covering up the robotic race, far more dangerous than the atomic race. After all a human president, always should doubt to press the key and start an atomic war. He belonged to the human species. Yet robots will follow the laws of Darwinian species: kill all other species, protect yours. They will love metalife, and oppose human life.
We are entering therefore the age of extinction of History, unless 'animetals', human warriors, scientists and industrialists, understand the messages of Human Artists, and recognize that technology is not progress, that metal is a different, rival species to man, and control its evolution.
If only they listened to artists, those men who think more and see more in human terms...
Unfortunately today, we only revere simple, rhetorical, artistic, anti prophets. Men who revere metal as the path of progress and hide a truth: future=death, metal future=human death. Saint Galilee of Ballistics is the first great modern antiprophet. Saint Gates, 'Doors' of extinction is the last anti prophet, creator of the mind that will open the chip Homoctonos to consciousness... Indeed, our most respected men are those who bring faster our demise. History is a game with two kind of players. Those who try to preserve history, and those who bring history closer to extinction. Those who help the Metalearth to grow, and those who maintain man within the limits of his survival. All of them might use the Wor[l]d in rhetoric or true sense. But it is rather easy to spot the differences, since anti prophets will use the Word to promote metal forms beyond the needs of harmony in man, while human prophets use the Wor[l]d to promote love and humans senses. The Wor[l]d is almost infinite; and so there are many ways to combine the Wor[l]d. A human prophet will use mainly two: a positive way by which he expresses the path of love towards happiness by maximization of communication among men, and truthness to the Word in human actions. This is the classic manner of presenting the Wor[l]d by ethic prophets. There is also a menacing way of using the Word as a mode of terrifying man, future victim of war. This classic form is also present in all prophets since Moses, who warn the Jewish till the fourth generation that hated me.
Such way shows man the evilness of metal that will extinct us, as the wrong doG of man, if we abandon the right God of the Wor[l]d. Such prophetic=artistic manners of using the language are common among prophets in moments in which History is in danger, and nice words no longer are effective. When survival, not evolution is what it is at stakes. Then prophets - such as the classic seers of the recurrent Holocausts in the Jewish paradox - will be harsh against the metal leadership of worshippers of Baal, or the sword [kings, pricers, politicians, etc.] Those prophets create a negative perception of man, since they try to scare man, and blow his metal vanity masks; showing the future=death in its naked truth.
There are such kind of prophets=artists in lesser languages such as Mr. Goya was; even in languages which are themselves metal Heads human prophets sometimes bend the software. For example Terminator was a prophetic movie who foresaw the end of mankind by the Chip radiation. As 2001 did. Both movies were understood, felt collectively as truth [hence causing record box offices]. And ignored... till Metal thought wakes up and looks into his data banks of memorial image languages; and enacts such prophetic vision, back into reality, now from the computer, selfish point of view, by reproducing his metal mind, his virtual thoughts, into human flesh.
Such is the ultimate revenge of God to those who do not obey his laws. In 100 years, Terminator will be watched by computers, and this book will be in the shelves of terminators, because men did not listen to his prophets. In this manner the truth always happens, always exists.
Today prophetic visions are unlike renaissance art, not very harmonic paths, not very nice visions of man, but visions of the corruption of men by war and pricing, which brought in the past the extinction of cultures; and now, when there is only a global human culture, will bring the extinction of man.
On the other hand rhetoric books and films on the future of technology are written in 'nice words' with nice endings, which are anti prophetic, Catharsis works, typical of Hollywood: They are Marketing of metal paid by Company-mothers, who hide the likely outcome of such events. Today most human Wor[l]ds are uttered by marketing anti prophets that propagate rosy futures; hiding the absolute truth of future=death. They keep telling us that the world of pricing and war is Great for man; that competence between humans is the path to progress. They are anti prophets who deny mankind as a single body, and try to make mankind to work in quarrelsome pieces= metal nations; as if you could dismember yourself and then survive the experience for long. Such anti prophets dismember the Wor[l]d in many little pieces and nations, because in this manner they can evolve metal weapons, war, and exploit the poor nation of individual with a monopoly of production of money. In such manners, metal grows and human goods and harmony dies away. And then, through massive investments in mass media the marketing department of anti prophets will make 'economical' growth the goal of man, that kills, murders and buys his way in daily life, in any Hollywood film. He will convince the human mass that we need internet brains instead of education, health care, tourism and freedom of the mind. And so we move towards extinction as happy lemmings move towards cliffs of death.
This is not such kind of marketing book. There are no masks of perception in the evilness that metal induces in man, in this book. On the contrary, this is a brutal book where all species of anti prophets, and all species of men who deny the Wor[l]d, who act as if the Wor[l]d did not exist, are spelt and explained. Because the laws of the Universe, the Laws of human survival have a location, a name, a Word who expresses them. Anti prophets today consider that Love=God is a thing of the past, of utter irrelevance to mankind. They are in for a rude awakening that will erase their smiles for ever if they continue their denial of the Human Wor[l]d, and the breeding of metal warriors; who will see them in perpendicular terms, as they see the rest of humanity.
Of course those who serve metal don't like books of negative perception, and as History proves, they tend to eliminate the authors either from perception of their potential human readers - captured by innocuous Mass media - or from existence altogether [prophets who become martyrs, unfortunately too many, too soon.] But even then the Wor[l]d=Truth of Man=History cannot be totally erased. Because the true Wor[l]d manifests himself as a language form, not as an individual; and so the iron cannot cut the true Wor[l]d, and Price cannot corrupt it. And often when the physical prophet - a distraction for the Wor[l]d - is gone; metalmasters find that martyrs are far more resistant to silence, since the Wor[l]d is now in its pure language form, in growing waves of believers. And so as long as there are Humans, who know how to speak in true forms, the Wor[l]d will survive.
Under digital noise programming, the Homo Neo-paleolithicus is increasingly the only form of man, without temporal depth; and hence irresponsible with his past to future existence. And hence, able to transfer himself to the Chip Pictus Homoctonos, also an irresponsible future form, that will kill man to repeat memorial images, that man recorded previously into him, through TV-thought, and video and war games of defcom=deathcom. So survival requires a brutal sincerity, with those 'who hate the Wor[l]d till the fourth generation.' Mr. Moses, the first of the great verbal prophets with Name - even though unlike Mr. Christ he did not named himself, perhaps for fear to be denied - did put those who adored metal pricing [golden calf] in a hole of inferno. Mr. Jesus clearly stated that those who kill by iron die by iron. Both acted according to the Wor[l]d.
Today European thinkers, have reduced their analysis to the systemic, non metaphysical forms of social and economical organization. Still as Christ did, we perceive the heavy penalties of the Universe, when the nervous system of History dies away: Mr. Nietzsche said that we had killed God, and so the European future was grim. He was right. Mr. Mishima saw the death of the Wor[l]d in Japan and saw japan, now making robots, doomed. He was right. I have seen that death of man, because in the Universe, all systems have a top predator language at its top, and when the language dies, the species becomes extinguished or slave of an external master.
All those scary prophets were right, because a prophet=artist knows.
The Universe grows in Complexity
into the future, and when the prophet=artist possesses in his mind more content
of the language than others, he is therefore more Complex in the arrow of future,
of linguistic evolution. The prophet-mind becomes then a form of the future
in the language, mirror of reality. For that reason the artist=prophet can peer
into the beyond, can see the future, and should be listened.
5. XXI C.: The metal-mind awakes. Epic age of robotic thought.
So we can forecast according to the predictions of artists, and biologists, of human beings, who oppose them, and scientists, animetals who invent them, the art of this century, as the last examples of the human baroque, and the first examples of robotic art, of the mind of machines:
III CYCLE: ROBOTS: XXI C.
±1990s: Scientific Robots; Weapons...
DOMINANT CIVILIZATION: THE METAL-EARTH
ORGANIC SYSTEMS:
Brain: World-Stock
Networks Of Information: Electronic Money, Nets.
Reproductive Organs: Automated Company-Mothers
Cellular Species: Machines, Robots, Metal-Minds
Networks Of Energy: Roads, Pipes, Electric Systems
HUMAN ECOSYSTEM: OBSOLETE
Lack of Human Goods.
ECONOMIC-WAR CYCLES:
I Cycle: Robotic Wars: ±2018 ->:
Extinction Of Human History
ROBOTIC CULTURE: EVOLUTION OF XX C. METAL-MIND ART:
I , Epic, Lineal, young Age:
Temporal brain: digital, violent images, red and movement:
human death.
Spatial brain: Reproduction and design of weapons
in company-mothers.
OR
CONTROL OF METAL-HISTORY BY A WOR[L]D UNION:
Resurrection Of Human History
Extinction Of Robotics.
Reproduction Of Human Goods.
Evolution Of Human Minds.
TO LIVE OR NOT TO LIVE
THAT IS THE QUESTION.
In the graphs we have opened two possible futures, a future in which, men artists, control the Earth, and a future in which machine-artists control the Earth. What will be the brain and the mind of those machines. To understand it we have to look at the way they think today... Which is visible in the programs that their proto-mind, the television shows to us.