We live in a historical moment marked by an exacerbated and distrustful individualism which, beyond fostering aggression and competition, can generate the most cruel and alienating form of loneliness. For this reason, it is of fundamental importance to rediscover a new balance founded on responsibility, cooperation, and shared values and ideals.
The advent of artificial intelligence, combined with materialist and reductionist principles according to which matter is the only existing reality and the cause of everything that exists, denying the existence of spiritual or transcendent dimensions and viewing the human being as a classical machine, encourages a form of scientism that is leading human society down a dangerous slope. We tend to think that reality itself is absurd, while in truth it is we who become absurd when we try to force reality into our preconceived ideas.
The concept of intelligence, which is primarily linked to human consciousness and creativity, has been applied to machines created by us, machines that are capable of imitating only the symbolic aspects of our intelligence. The expression “artificial intelligence” is an oxymoron, because AI, although it is called “intelligence,” is not intelligence in the true sense, since human intelligence is “natural” and possesses properties that remain inaccessible. This deceptive use of language is also the method by which dictators indoctrinate people in order to enslave them. It is a subtle poison that, little by little, causes individuals to lose contact with the source of their critical thinking and their humanity.
Power needs materialist doctrine to subjugate the masses, persuading them that the human being is nothing more than a biological machine, however sophisticated it may be. If we consider ourselves machines, we will sooner or later be surpassed by machines built by those who might seek to control us. Modern society, as it is structured, aims to give a heart to machines and take it away from human beings, because it needs people who are efficient, bureaucratized, robotized, punctual, logical, obedient, competitive, and without a heart. People with a heart are unpredictable, and unpredictability always holds unexpected surprises.
True wisdom is reached by listening both to the mind, meaning reason, and to the heart, meaning intuition and inner life, in order to connect with a broader dimension of reality that is at once logical and ineffable. This is the first step toward reconnecting with the love that lies at the center of everything that lives in the universe. Only in this way can we overcome the materialist ideology that demands the closure of the heart in order to compete in a world governed by the principle of “mors tua, vita mea.”
By communicating repeatedly with love, it is possible, even starting from subjectivity, to arrive at a shared state, a kind of resonance that leads to unity. The idea that technology alone can save us is part of an arrogant illusion that has captured the minds of those who have lost their hearts and believe themselves to be purely rational. The more we cooperate, the easier it becomes to create a better world in which every form of life is honored and respected, unrestrained competition is eliminated, politics places itself at the service of citizens, and the progress of humanity is guided by each person’s need to grow spiritually.
It is only within consciousness that hope for a better future for ourselves and for the planet truly resides. Unconsciousness leads us toward self-destruction.