Artificial Intelligence / Biological Intelligence

As an AI researcher and artist I want to integrate these most fascinating fields of reality. Being is a mystery and miracle that I need to experience as deep as possible. I look for a future where all these different phenomena, as Art, AI technology, Consciousness technology are not exclusively threatening each other but embracing each other and coming into symbiosis. For me this symbiosis needs to be materialised in my very being. So I delve into the unknown to answer this call and bring back some energies that are timely, beneficial and truthful.

 “Unfortunately, at present we are not doing much to research and develop human consciousness. We are researching and developing human abilities mainly according to the immediate needs of the economic and political system, rather than according to our own long-term needs as conscious beings. My boss wants me to answer emails as quickly as possible, but he has little interest in my ability to taste and appreciate the food I am eating. Consequently, I check my emails even during meals, while losing the ability to pay attention to my own sensations. The economic system pressures me to expand and diversify my investment portfolio, but it gives me zero incentives to expand and diversify my compassion. So I strive to understand the mysteries of the stock exchange, while making far less effort to understand the deep causes of suffering. We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximise the human potential. Indeed we have no idea what the full human potential is, because we know so little about the human mind. And yet we hardly invest much in exploring the human mind, and instead focus on increasing the speed of our Internet connections and the efficiency of our Big Data algorithms. If we are not careful, we will end up with downgraded humans misusing upgraded computers to wreak havoc on themselves and on the world.” - Yuval Noah Harari