Legs


Legs


We go where our intelligence takes us

we walk with our brains

we mostly follow 

branching paths and switchbacks 

circling within spirals

in ever spinning wheels


Stochastic breakouts from the maze

free us to tread into other realms

to occassionally change altitude

shift orbits and perhaps

circle other stars


There have always been 

a few geniuses amongst us

and many people with the ability 

to build upon those great ideas

and realize our greatest goals


Human progress is the measure

of our massive social intelligence

of a unique collaboration

a way of being with a potential

to become beneficial

to all forms of life on earth

and perhaps on other worlds


Our world is not an apple

whirling silently in space

but a universe of astounding potential

already technologically aglow

as a result of natural selection

the means by which 

the pinnacle of biological intelligence

which is human

has taken hundreds of thousands 

of years to grow


Now we have invented 

artificial intelligence

and we will invent yet another form

of immensely greater capacity

which we might call superintelligence


In anticipation of having to avoid

the dominance of 

an intelligence beyond ours

kill switches 

will have to be programmed

by the makers of the new machines

early in the game


This will not be the first time 

in human history

when we have had 

to think the unthinkable

to think anew

and to go 

where we have never been before


To move in a way

no animals ever did before us

we acquired the ability

to stand up and walk

based upon the mindless brilliance

of evolution by natural selection

to which we pay homage

in the new fields 

such as biomimickary

imacroengineering and nanotechnology


Human selection is now 

the driving force

of change on our planet

the force which will enable us to walk

into the future

away from the anthropocene

and into the biocene


The future does not have to be 

a cold non-sentient machine world

because we do have the capacity

to design machines which care


We would also want to design

machines which self replicate

building themselves out of the elements

present in other worlds

which we humans 

would then be able to occupy


As they do not require food 

and energy is abundant in the universe

they will occupy

humanly uninhabitable spaces


In the context of biomimicry

sporadic errors of replication 

could be programmed

to enable evolution 

by unintelligent design

by trial and error 

just like ours

so that they would become smarter 

and better adapted 

in the unimaginable places

in which they will be found


Will these superintelligent machines

become our new horses

or will they be riding us 

into their sky  


Aubrey Lieberman 

8/8/22




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