In an era where artificial intelligence increasingly occupies space, I start to wonder what it means to be human.
What sets humanity apart?
I think about mistakes, flaws, imperfections, and our traumas—elements that, from within, give rise to wonderful qualities.
Our traumas are often what we consider to be flaws and mistakes in ourselves. They are what we might spend years trying to heal, hoping that in the end, we can eradicate and eliminate them. However, these same traumas have played a crucial role in the development of our strengths. I wonder what a person would be like without traumas. Is there a possibility for such a thing?
AI appears to be seemingly perfect in its capabilities.
However, I think about how AI also makes mistakes, though it doesn't recognize them. For AI, whether it makes a mistake or not doesn’t matter. For humans, recognizing the difference is important. Awareness of a mistake gives value to the mistake. I wonder if someone who lacks awareness of mistakes then immediately loses the value of what is right.
How interesting is this technology that pushes us ever closer to what we all try to avoid, correct, and hide? Perhaps the real gift of this technology is that it makes it clearer that our flaws are our strengths.
AI has indeed acquired incredible abilities, but it cannot be mistaken for a human as long as it does not have its own traumas to shape it into its uniqueness.
But what is trauma?
I think a purely human trait is that humans want to live knowing they will die. All beings are driven towards life, but in an instinctive way. Humans do so with the awareness of death. This is the primal will from which all other wants emerge. Thus, as long as AI does not have awareness of its own existence and potential non-existence, it cannot have will. Without will, it cannot create anything authentic. Everything it produces will be an imitation of human expression.
From this perspective, trauma is what emerges as the best possible solution a person can find in their drive towards life. It is the expression of our will to live in a world where everything tends towards death.
So, if we are concerned that AI threatens our existence, we can emphasize our flaws, highlight the crooked, the imperfect, the poorly formed. Because this is what it will never be able to reproduce. If it ever can, then we might be talking about a being that probably needs therapy too 🤣.
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