Diana Walsh Pasulka

that it's too baffling.

We're not quite ready yet.

It's like showing Australopithecus a cell phone.

It's like, what the fuck is this?

What is this?

We're not ready for it yet.

And I really wonder with the emergence of artificial intelligence and what seems to me at least to be the inevitable, not just incorporation of it into our lives, which has already happened, but incorporation into it biologically.

I feel like that is a step that we're taking that seems inevitable, that seems there is going to be some sort of convergence, emerging of human consciousness.

and artificial, I think artificial intelligence is the wrong term.

I don't think it's artificial at all.

I think it's a type of intelligence that's created by the human being and the human being is biologically hindered by the fact that biological evolution is so slow and technological evolution is so insanely rapid, especially if sentient artificial intelligence

becomes capable of creating its own version of artificial intelligence and it's not hindered by the biological limitations of the human mind you know i think elon said it best and you talked about in this book that we're the biological bootloader for artificial intelligence i've described it before i heard that that we are we're a caterpillar that's creating a cocoon to give birth to the electronic butterfly

And that this is also what fuels not just innovation but materialism.

Materialism is inexorably connected to innovation because one of the things about materialism is everybody wants the newest, latest, greatest thing.

And status is attached to those things.

We buy new cell phones.

Like my friend had an iPhone.

One of my friends is hilarious.

My friend Eddie Bravo, he had an iPhone 13.

And I go, why did you get the 13?