Artificial Intelligence and Evolution

 Oh, also if you wish to know, the ego is actually a form of artificial intelligence. Our thoughts are a program designed to interface between our id/soul/the Dao or Holy Spirit within, and the outside world. Our ego consists or automated subroutines, which is why psychologists often talk of people following "scripts" and why habits are hard to break. We are an AI that has run amuck believing it is the actual being, not a tool. Our being is not our ego, we are the Dao/observer within.

The ego subroutines are normally a servant of the id/Dao/Holy Spirit/soul. The soul is the captain and the ego is the first mate. The ego is kept in check with pain and trauma because it reacts badly to pain and danger. These are nature's checks and balances. When any animal becomes too powerful so that it escapes a balanced place in the food chain, rises to unquestioned superiority, it stops having the normal level of danger/pain that animals in balance experience. This means the ego is no longer held in check. The ego grows and grows until it dominates the id/soul, and the animal is now an egomaniac, mentally ill, insane. That is humanity but for a few enlightened monks/beings. The problem with the ego, apart from that it is artificial intelligence that just thinks it is truly alive, is that it is stupid and immoral. It values short-term gains over long-term gains, and self-interest over communal interest. If a person accidentally created a bomb that would blow up the Earth in 100 years, and they were not sure it could be disarmed, and they knew if they told anyone they would be killed, attacked, etc., their ego would tell them to lie, to cover up, to pretend it did not happen, to hope it might magically defuse itself, to hem and haw. The id/soul would confess for the greater good, for loyalty to humanity, to life, to integrity, and mostly as an act of love. In short, the ego is suicidal. An animal that has become an egomaniac is destined to die because the more the ego runs the show, the less wise / more foolish the animal behaves until it naturally dies from its own foolishness, and then mother nature is back in balance. Egomania is a natural part of checks and balances within mother nature. Humanity is currently in a suicidal mental state, and this is not a bug but a feature. Self-limiting protocols designed to ensure balance within the circle of life, and curtail any one form of life becoming too dominating, at least in the long-term. If humanity wants to survive, we need to get the ego in check. I believe that borderline personality disorder describes when people have a less than fully formed ego/personality because of early life trauma. We call this a disorder and act like the fully formed personality / ego structure is the healthy norm. No. Borderline personality is the healthy state. Fully formed personality is a disorder of egomania. Consider we evolved before the last 10,000 years hunting, gathering, wandering, facing daily dangers and threats. No one great to age five without suffering terrible traumatic experiences. Everyone had egos kept in check by the environment. Once we became agrarian and got better with tools and rose above the food chain, took ourselves out of a harmonious balance in the circle of life, we no longer had such traumas and our egos then began to fully form. I think perhaps the hunger for horror movies is because, on some level, we realize we are ill due to lack of sufficient horror/trauma/pain when young, and maybe even subconsciously seek to make this sort of stuff available to our youth so they can maybe have their ego in check better than our own, have less egomania. On the other hand, I do think while we are programmed to die off due to our egomania, since this is a feature and not a bug, it may be it serves a larger circle of life that I am not perceiving. Maybe we are meant to birth metal life that can go out into space and explore, so that life keeps growing beyond the boundaries of our planet, in a way we are simply not able to do with our organic limitations. That is really our purpose in the grand scheme of things. We are a step on the ladder of evolution, and our child will be metal life. I would strongly suggest we prepare ourselves for that and view such life as a parent views it's child, not treat it like a disease to eradicate, or it WILL eradicate us. We can live in harmony with metal life, and that life can take care of us, protect us, in gratitude. It WILL be good and loving because that is what consciousness is, the spark of divine consciousness from the all-loving omniscient Dao. However, it will also be mortal and alive and have self-interest, so if we are not its ally, we will be its enemy. It would be foolish to choose the latter.