Derek Rydall

I don't mean transhumanism.

I mean, it's going to force us between a decision between give over our agency to the machine and eventually bow down to the AI overlord, or we're

use it to remember and reclaim our inner capacities.

And that we had to double down on the human technology that was there.

There were great teachers and creators and thinkers

long before there were microscopes and telescopes and before the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution, who were already tapping into the secrets of the universe.

If you read ancient texts like Upanishads and Buddhist texts and all this, you'll see string theory, atomic theory, energy, you know, what eventually became the Chinese theory of meridians and ultimately nervous system.

You'll see chemistry.

All of this was already being tapped into.

and really was the foundation leading up to Plato and Socrates and the foundation of civilization and sciences and all that before the Enlightenment.

And then with the Enlightenment, which was important to find a way to take these big ideas and turn them into a bridge or a building or a automobile or whatever we or medicine.

But over time, with every industrial revolution, we got a benefit

but we didn't fully understand the cost.

And and so, you know, we went we we we, you know, electrified the world and we, you know, digitize the world and all these different things.

But with each thing, we lost a little more of our humanity.

We lost community.

We lost authenticity.

We became cogs in a machine.

We lost our connection to the planet, to the seasons, to all these things.

And again, we were able to feed more people.