Biochemistry in service to GREAT NATURE? AI will turn life into hammers and nails.

Modern science is a wonderful thing for humans. We hardly appreciate it. For most of us, it’s a black box. We hardly notice it, although we depend on it; science, engineering, and technology are ubiquitous and permeate everything on Earth in the form of modernity's waste byproducts.

None of us wants to try living in medieval Europe, not if we understand how things were back then. Perhaps some tribes of people lived in harmony with nature. We will never know how people one hundred thousand years ago felt about life. We have evolved into animals able to harness vast resources and produce many things for our convenience, health, and prosperity, but within the context of complex, evolving living systems, nothing comes without consequences.

We have traded posterity for prosperity. Perhaps, the meaning of human life was all about acquiring the next feast and avoiding the next famine. Only today do we feast on everything all the time if we can afford it, and turn our backs on, or use those who can’t.

To paraphrase, “We are the world, we consume everything.”

A little charity will cover the calamities; someday, if others learn how to consume properly, everyone will be happy and able to afford to give back.

We could use our knowledge to live with and preserve life. AI could help us live well within limits, but our creations align with warped human ambitions and obsessions.

Our most significant problems are our socioeconomic belief systems and how we believe we fit into GAIA. This predicament is a feature, not a bug, embedded in our memetic, narrative nature. We are not wise enough to harness our science, engineering, and technology to maintain a balanced, evolving ecosphere.

Genocide and Ecocide are ongoing symptoms of cascading predicaments flowing from our stories and beliefs.

Our leaders, marked by the dark tetrad characteristics, are, by and large, addicted to the seven deadly sins.

Ordinary modern humans are too distracted, pacified, and domesticated to see the forest for the trees. Most are too busy surviving according to outrageous modern values to appreciate complex Great Nature, much less learn from it.

Study biology and physics, not to control and transform the world, not to produce a Blade Runner trash heap, but to understand how we must change to preserve it.

Life begets Life. Life depends on Life.

Turn off the omnicidal heat engine.

Although we live in a fantastic time of wealth and abundance, civilization, as we know it, is already dead.

How then shall we live?