The world without us

 The world without us


As an outcome of the evolutionary process that is now so familiar at some level to most of us, we are clever, highly social, and highly communicative creatures, our combinatorial intelligence unsurpassed, to our knowledge, for the present.


Adult humans naturally seek the help of other adults, and children and domesticated animals, the products of human selection, and create tools out of inanimate objects in the environment, to enable survival.


The abundance of help results in an abundance of company, a very large community arising from the evolutionary process.


A lot of work is necessary to maintain all of the constituents that makes the community functional. Human parenting is particularly prolonged and physically and mentally demanding, a penalty for having a large and very complex brain. 


When machines are available to do the work, humans default to having having fewer children and raising fewer farm animals for labor. 


Non-procreative sexual activity, utilizing traditional and pharmaceutical methods, as well as sex robots, contributes to population decline as well.


If human immigration into this sort of community is also restricted, dependency upon machines is inevitably exaggerated, and ultimately it is transformed into a community of robots rather than people.


Human population decline may be mitigated to only a minor extent by the engineered ability to live a high quality life for a very long period of time relative to the current typical lifespan of a person. 


Is it possible for humans to be happy in a world devoid of children? Robots may or may not be happy, depending on their programming or the outcomes of deep learning, and the presence of a happiness module, in a world devoid of people.


A robotic country may help to keep humans in other countries on earth happy for a while. If our entire world becomes robotic, the machines could contribute to happiness in other worlds while they continue to preserve the memory of the human species that once was, as a frame of reference.


Does the unconscious universe disappear when it is no longer conceived by humans or robots, or when everything is swallowed up in the ultimate entropic singularity and the end of time?


If evolution never reaches the level of human intelligence and the inhabitants of the non-technological world continue to eat or be eaten indefinitely, would it have been a happier place? 


Aubrey Lieberman 

1/22/25


Attributions: The Dawn Of Everything, David Wengrow, David Graeber.

How AI Will Shape Our Future, Pedro Uria-Recio.

National Geographic Wild series, Disney channel.

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