I so enjoy your articles - thank you for brilliant writing - when is your book coming out? Smile because it should. I've restricted myself to fiction and five books of it. At the heart of it all is the argument you make here through the words of one of main characters. There are two core problems. The very nature of us and consciousness - we are the ones who need rewiring. Then the very nature of the civilization we have constructed. Here is a tiny piece of dialogue from my main character.
“Yes,” Jules replies reflectively, “how much of our competitive deadliness is baked into us you mean. Recently I’ve been thinking it might be a solution if we could suddenly acquire a collective conscious mind that was focused on species survival.” He leans back from the window he’s been looking out of and turns to face Zid who is sprawled out in a comfortable seat next to him.
“Oh my friend what a superb thought. All of us linked together into one big superbrain,” he pauses before he adds, “and don’t think I haven’t seen certain species around the Universe operating in just this way.”
“Jung’s collective unconscious threading its way through all our nervous systems connecting us into one single integrated consciousness perhaps?” Jules puts forth as he accepts a drink from the robotic server who has accompanied them and presents a tray of snacks and mixed drinks.
“Perhaps, like these others have done for their species, we’ll discover a universal digitized code that would link us brain to brain so the conscious differentiations between individuals no longer exists.”
“Create a single integrated consciousness,” Zid adds as he drinks a seltzer. He rarely drinks alcohol and has never developed a taste for it. “One which would not conduct war against itself. What I would call a perfect democracy, since the participants would not be able to discriminate against themselves. “
“Even better,” he continues, “the species gains a kind of holographic immortality. Individual death is inconsequential since no experience or memory of species entirety is ever lost.”
