Monotheistic Idealism and Way of Human Life.

Machine Intelligence is here. It is not here just to stay, it is here to Rule. There is no denying it. There is no way to get out of it. Whether one agrees or not, we are under Machine Rule already. Machine Intelligence Rules us through Code and Computing.

We already are standing at the point where adapting to a New Machine Ruled world is no longer a possibility. Adapting to this new world is now an issue of Urgency and Necessity.

From the viewpoint of the middle class common man, coding a few decades back was different from what it is now. Coding was restricted to programming Machines to “assist’ humans. Now, there is a strong movement to program “humans” to assist the machines. This has been made possible due to the explosion of Digital Data about Human Nature and Human Behaviour. Therefore, it is of no surprise that, there is an urgency to understand the complex world of Digital Data. There is an urgency for a human to be comfortable in their own digital skin in this world. Navigating the Digital World is a trip into the world of absolute rules.

In the natural order of life, there are no absolute rules. The only absolute rule is survival. Life is free to do anything to survive. If Life Survives, it Multiplies and Thrives. Evolutionary Shortcuts and Advantages are towards the absolute rule of survival.

Human Survival depends on a special version of this rule. The Human Mind had to survive along with the Human Body. If the Mind is destroyed, that version of Human never existed. If the Body is destroyed, the Mind is destroyed. Since the Human Mind is powerful than of other species, Humanity quickly understood that, Physical Bodies could be strengthened but will certainly die after some time but, Human Ideas and thoughts are more powerful and need to survive beyond physical bodies. Ideas and thoughts can survive only when needed effort is taken when the body is alive.

We invented Polytheistic Religion by which different gods that appealed to different and every aspect of human nature gave us means to ensure that our thoughts do not die with us and ideas are nurtured when alive. We invented ways to ensure that our thoughts live beyond our physical selves. Thus emerged Family to carry our name, Cave Paintings, Art, Literature, Law and Justice. The Humans who championed it became Patriarchs/ matriarchs, Masters, Heroes and Legendary Warriors, Leaders and Icons. This collective effort of Mind and Body is our Human Nature. The mastery of body and mind means mastery of Human Nature. In order to survive, Humans must live true to this.

Recently, on the death of an Old Judge of the Supreme Court of India who dissented against the then Ruling Government in a landmark case during Emergency in India, was remembered as a Hero of Modern Independent India. His intention was definitely to do what is right, but shaped by his motivation to live beyond his life, if he did not contemplate what future generations would think of the judiciary, he would have never done so.

The Human Understanding of Survival as to never truly die, simultaneous to that understanding, Humans Invented another rule - that there is only one way to live. This is embodied in Monotheistic Religion, Political Ideologies and championed by Motivational Speakers, Politicians and Godmen. The result was simple but unimaginable results came out of it. If I live in accordance to only the one Rule, I will have to force my thoughts to emerge only within the scope offered by the Rule. No other thought can emerge as it would be contrary to the absolute rule.

When the new absolute rule replaces the original absolute rule, human thoughts are oriented to the new rule. No doubt there is resistance because the original absolute rule is much older and implanted into the human psyche over generations. This resistance to the new absolute rule is the primary cause for Mental Health Problems, Physical issues such as bigorexia, anorexia and obesity, addictions to drugs, alcohol and technology. The resistance to the new absolute rule exposes the conflict with the older absolute rule and makes us to stare at an uncertain future. Which rule? becomes what rule? and later morphs to what’s the use?

Every human is put to “social compulsion” to adopt digital devices. Governments, Elected Officials and Judiciary of every country is pushed into the Digital World. They are pulling the citizens in turn into this world. In today’s world, Governments cannot assure drinking water, cannot assure nutritious food and cannot assure clean air, cannot assure vaccines but they can now assure us of unfettered access to digital technology. Judiciary cannot stop suicides of litigants in front of the most powerful court of the country, but will definitely adopt digital technology for judicial work. Officials are ready to put smartphones into the hands of every child but cannot give even atleast a promise of a happy and fulfilled life for the citizens. There is no proof that it will help humans to survive. There is no even a promise. I personally have noticed that, since the pandemic, There is no promises about the future by our authorities, just absolute rules.

A human can be happy with access to free drinking water, clean air, good food and healthy relationships. This Human would most likely live true to his other nature and therefore survive. But, this would require allowing the Human to live his life as he or she pleases. The human will be free to choose his or her mode of survival. The Human may decide to have many children or the human may decide to plant more trees. The Human may decide that, fighting for this way of life is better and thus fight against the one who permits this freedom. This has never been in the interest of Monotheism or Idealism at any point of time because, there would be no control. Without control, Religion and political ideologies will have no takers.

Monotheism and Idealism have never been one. They have been separate. Therefore, we still have relatively cleaner air, human rights, some green on this planet and human still want atleast one child or two in their life.

Machine Intelligence and Digital Data today are the embodiment of the New Invented Absolute Rule with the exception that it is a Monotheistic Idealism. It is a combination of a Single God Religion and A Single Ideal. It creates a new absolute rule, that there is only one way for Humans to Live - Along with Machines. There is no alternate acceptable way of life for a Human unless it is coded into the Machine Intelligence. Only if it is coded in, will the Machine accept it.

The only silver lining in the Machine Intelligence is that, it is “invented” by humans. Therefore, if the Human chooses, then alternate way of life can be coded into the Machines.

However, no Human today can choose an alternative way of life, for every way of life that Humans know today are full of drawbacks. Democracy and Socialism are both faulty. Western Liberalism and Chinese Socialism are both faulty. Islamic Sharia Expansion and Christian Religious Dominance are both wrong. Hindu fundamentalism and Muslim Fundamentalism are both fanatical and wrong.

It would take a really exceptional human, one who has lived in and understood all possible ways of Human Life to formulate effective code for the Machine that would allow itself to accept different ways of life. All Humans would live happily under such a machine and would choose to do so.

However, no single human exists or is likely to exist to be aware of all possible ways of life in the world. However, there are a lot of humans living under different ways of life who can code their respective way of life into machines.

It may not be possible to choose an alternative way of life, but it is always possible to give choices. Any machine that accepts only one way of living whether it be a personal way of life or a working life will be a failure from a human point of view.

It has to be kept in mind that, when Machines are bound to fail, failure can be rectified. Human Failure on the other hand is irreversible and is a disaster. If you want proof, just see the way climate change is progressing. It represents human failure. A human can make mistakes or can fail at one particular aspect of life, but no human actually fails at everything. There is some success. The real human failure is therefore, focusing only one way to live. Therefore, humanity as a whole cannot and should not fail at living human lives.

It is therefore a tragedy when children, teenagers and adults commit suicide over failure. No person commits self-harm due to inability to live life as they want. The self-harm is a result of inability to live life how others want, society and other humans around them. This is the real human failure and a disaster. Self-harm induced due to technology is compounding of the disaster.

What is appreciable is the Human Drive to understand digital data and to build digital versions of humans that will never truly die. What is not appreciable is the fact that, for majority of humans, building a digital life is the only way to live. It is however not the only way to never truly die. Alternative methods of life are not coded in. The goal of every digital technology is to ensure only one way to live - to keep feeding data in line with the machine’s code. The goal could be that there are many ways to never truly die. The incorporation of the natural absolute rule would actually take our digital technology to a whole new level and will incorporate some if not all human values into the machines.

Motivational talks, advising Yoga and meditation and de-stressing techniques for Information Workers are nothing but insistence of the second absolute rule. The worker lives for the machine. The worker’s only way of life is to work. The machine enforces it and ensures that this absolute rule is never violated. However, when the resistance to the new absolute rule grows, then the conflict between the original and the absolute rule will become too much to handle and this results in mental health problems and lifestyle issues.

When Motivational Discourses, Yoga, Meditation and Mental Health Therapy become accepted parts of the economy, it only ensures that the new absolute rule is not violated. The Human is pushed to ignore the original absolute rule.

It cannot be too apparent to notice that, the old absolute rule is never incorporated into the social structures today. No employer wants to ensure that alternative ways of living and working are encouraged, because that would result in giving up control. No Government is willing to relax draconian laws, for that would result in dilution of legal control. No society wants to encourage alternative way of living because that would mean giving up social control.

Only if every human chooses to accept that, every other human is an alternative version of life, will there be a possibility to build inclusive digital technologies that will incorporate every alternative version of life.