Voyager
The first explicit attempt at connection
This is not an attempt to show how unique, how unordinary I am. Quite the contrary, I recognize that I am no unicorn, and I don’t want to be one either. It’s just a piece of my thought, demonstration of my insignificant intelligence.
No one is one thousand times smarter than anyone else. Hence no one should have one thousand times more wealth or influence on the world. We humans are not shaping our own futures. We are at the discretion of people like Musk and Winnie. Whether they could steer this “humanity” ship in the right direction is beyond the scope of this random piece of writing. The real question though, is whether anyone SHOULD have that kind of power, ever. We all are physical embodiments of the miracle of Emergence. And because of that, we are all equal. If some human can be above the entirety of mankind, well, then we truly are still in infancy.
Much like our civilization, I have just become aware of the world. I have just realized that there could be millions of conscious and intelligent lives out there. I have just left my cradle called family and my pram called school. So this gibberish is like the Voyagers. It’s my attempt to say:
“This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.”
What a beautiful line.
So if you give a damn about a barely intelligent and conscious life, if you can be bothered to show me something, to teach me something, and maybe even to have some meaningful exchanges, please do bother.
Otherwise I’ll start doing weird things. E.g.
Hugging a tree.
Ahhh, trees are great. I love trees.