Kevin Kelly

But it is a momentous moment where, for the first time, we're figuring out what it is.

And as humans, this is big because we evolved with other setian beings.

There were a lot of other Neanderthals and beyond when we were evolving.

But at least for the past 50,000 years, we've been the sole setian being on the planet.

The hegemons.

We're now going to go back to having other sentient beings.

And we don't know today why we're the only ones.

Was it deliberate or was it accidental?

We don't know.

But we're going to have to share the world with other sentient beings in some ways.

And we don't even know what that looks like or feels like.

But that's another momentous threshold in our planet.

But again, that's sort of long term.

In the short term...

We have AI of a very, very narrow sense of pattern recognition and pattern generation.

We synthesize one type of cognition, which is pattern recognition, pattern generation.

And all the things we're seeing today, only because we synthesize that one single kind of cognition, we haven't been able to synthesize deduction, symbolic reasoning, all the other kinds of things that we do in our own brain, we haven't been able to synthesize yet.

So we're still at the very beginnings of this.

I think one of the things that affects us in the long term, say the next century, is that we're going to be undergoing a century-long identity crisis as a species.

Going back to the individual of like, what is it you want to be?