Gregg Braden
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One of the things I think that sets today apart from any other time in the past, and you mentioned the new book, I opened the new book by speaking about this, is that as humans, we've always had the ability to change the world around us. We could, we sometimes not such good ways, we've clear cut forest, we've hunted species to the point of extinction.
Sometimes we can do some good things in terms of ecology and engineering, But the point is we've always been able to look and say if we don't like what we did, we can change that, maybe go back to what we had before.
What sets today apart, Andre, from any other time in our history is that for the first time in the 200,000 years of our existence, 10,000 generations ago is when we emerged on this planet. That's really not that long ago. For the first time, we have the ability not only to change the world around us, but to forever change the world within us, to change our very biology.
And when we make those changes in our biology, unlike the external world, we can't go back. Once we make the shift in engineering our immune system, for example, and replacing our own immune system with technology that creates the limited immunity for us, or very specified kinds of immunity, the body begins to say, well, maybe you don't need me to do what I did in the past.
And so one generation, that becomes the way things are done, the next generation through what we call epigenetics. Next generation, children are born and the body says, oh, you know, we don't do it that way anymore. That's a vestige of our past because now we have a new way, a chemical base to develop our immune system. And that's just one example.
So here we are at the precipice of giving our humanness away to technology, replacing our bodies with synthetics and replacing our biology with with synthetics within a context of a belief system that says we're flawed to begin with, and there's no reason not to do this.
where the best science of the modern world is telling us just the opposite, the real science, not the pop science that you see in the magazine covers in the airports and cable news network, things like that, but the real science behind the scenes. Andre, the new discoveries are showing us nothing short of the immensely extraordinary beings that we are.
We are literally a highly advanced, technologically sophisticated, soft technology. Hard technology is computer chips, as we said, and chemicals and sensors under the skin. But we're more than that as human. We're neurons and cell membranes and DNA with the ability to morph and adapt to our environment as that environment changes.
And in many cases, we not only meet, but we exceed the capacity of the computer chips and the artificial intelligence. And there are studies that have been done recently, the Salk Institute here in California, for example. compared a human brain to a microprocessor. And the way they did that is really interesting. They equated the synapses in the brain with the transistors on the computer chip.
And interestingly, the numbers for both are very, very close. And they made the calculations, and with the bottom line, what they found was that the human brain is 100-fold faster and more adaptable to the kinds of information that's coming in than the computer chip can be. And let me just round that out by explaining why, because this is one of the things that sets us apart.
Any technology is going to be limited by the physics of the stuff it's made of. Right now, computer chips typically are silicon. If you go to the periodic table and you look at a little map of a silicon atom, what makes that silicon, silicon is never gonna change. And the distance between those atoms and the geometric arrangement of the atoms to make the silicon isn't going to change.
And information can only flow so fast between those. It's limited by the physics. that makes the silicon, silicon. So you say, what is the scalability of a computer chip? And what we have to say is that the scalability is finite. And you mentioned this Moore's law, was a law referencing the doubling, not only of information, but the doubling of computer speeds and chips as well.
Every 18 to 24 months. 18 to 24 months. We now are at almost the quantum level where it has happened so fast that we are up against the limits on a quantum level. And Then you ask the question, what about a human neuron? What about our limits?
And this is, it's so beautiful because every time the scientists and the medical teams, they push a human neuron up against what has been perceived to be a limit in the past, we do what humans do. We morph and we adapt to that limit, opening a new vista, an entire new vista of potential that was unknown previously. So that when we say, what is our scalability?
What we have to say honestly right now is we don't know. Right now, it appears the scalability of a human neuron is infinite. And that's only one example of where we're being conditioned to believe that the technology is our savior, that the AI and the computer chips are the savior at the cost, the very high price of relinquishing our humanness.
And we begin replacing our biology with that technology. That's how you lose a species. That's exactly how you lose a species.
Sure. When I released the early copies of the book, Pure Human, for review, I had feedback from some scientists and technologists about this very topic. For our viewers at this time, as we're having this conversation, the book is not available commercially right now. So these are review copies.
The book is a celebration of our humanness and hopefully the invitation to develop a deeper appreciation for just what it means to be human so that maybe we're not so fast to relinquish our humanists, at least not before we know what it is that we're giving away. When I got those reviews from some of the technologists, what they believe is that this is the next step in human evolution.
I disagree with that because this is an artificial evolution. It's a forced evolution, and it is at the expense of relinquishing the extraordinary biology that allows us to be who we are in place of the technology. In other words, replacing us with the technology rather than taking that biology and developing it to another level. So it is a form of evolution. It's not a natural evolution.
It's an artificial evolution. And I talk about this in the book a little bit. I'm going to say this right now. It's not good for us.
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