QUOTE: "THE MIND INSIDE THE WORLD" FROM THE NOVEL PARADOX OF THE LOCUS (A.GLASS 2016)

 

"Stumer looks at the other guests, some nod in an agreeing manner others smile politely. Dumas remains quite.

“War. Dr Jogn Sinclair,” The host asks, turning his attention to the Economist Dr Jogn Sinclair

“A monumental waste of money, resources and life. That has effectively bankrupted the human race as the world after the last war, the global networks, trade, technology all collapsed spectacularly. What we had was a time, that we refer to now, as the post-gradation effect, after this conflict there was a financial and trade collapse, that also included currencies. Unprecedented in history. The global GDP could no longer be calculated as countries retracted into insular trade networks. Similar to the first cold war in the nineteen sixties through to the nineteen seventies, where you had country’s that were allied with each other, bypass the country’s that were our 'enemies' at the time. The difference now, at this point in time, it has compressed, meaning that selling and buying within free markets has been replaced with autocratic concepts of money and its market transactions, more so the strict requirements of e-credit accounts. Most of these compressed economies, like ours, now rely more on streamlined competitiveness, again, this is a new frontier and most industries have been reborn in an automation sense.”

“Robots you mean?” The hosts asks.

“Yes. A new era in economic creative destruction, painful adjustments.”

“But forced upon us though,” The hosts replies, Dr Sinclair turns looking at Dumas who shakes his head.

“No, we set this up. The changes, the pain are all our doing. No cosmic force guided us, I study bio-origins of ancient life, cell life, bacterial. It can't be stressed enough that early life, which makes up the human construct is far more durable and adaptive than human beings. Yes, we are flawed and yes we made the errors, we only have ourselves to blame. Despite bacterial life being more durable, it's not intelligent, it doesn't really evolve, because it hasn’t needed too. Biological adaption is survival, based on an animal's intelligence. In other words the more intelligent the animal is, the crucial it is for evolution to guide its survival instincts. The difference between cell organisms and us, human beings, is evolution. To evolve is to make errors and learn from them. My concern is, if we fully automate our societies, reprogramming our brains with cybernetic implants, strip down the human bases of what we are to become more efficient, precise, without flaws. This does raise ethical questions. The main questions as an Ethicist and bio-origin researcher are, 'What is it to be human?', 'What is the reasoning for our evolution and our place in the cosmos?' Also one must grapple with the ultimate question.
'Is this real?'”

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PARADOX OF THE LOCUS (A.Glass 2016)