Over-the-Air (OTA) Updates to Your Human Experience

Shadi El Asaad
2 min readMar 13, 2023

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Nature is a seductive counterpart to our techno-evolution. Her shapeshifting organic slime and mycelial intelligence thrusting us into god mode, in a self-fulfilling prophecy that tells us we have gone absolutely and utterly mental, but we love the thrill of it, and so we keep going. At the mercy of epigenetics we are catapulted into the exponential infinity — The Singularity TM. Pioneers of soon-to-be artificial consciousness, a mirror image of organic consciousness exported through high-fidelity neural networks curated by natural selection and imported into the digital machine through binary language.

We’ve come to believe that we’re a separate strand of evolution, a branch gone rogue. We say that nature is primitive and we have outsmarted the universe time and time again. There is no end to the human naivety reminiscent of our geocentric era. What we fail to recognize as a species, is that this universe is super-duper-hyper-intelligent beyond our wildest imagination and is teeming with raw information and creativity. In the grand scheme of things, we represent a convenient vessel for further complexification of information, and therefore the universe. In this sense, artificial consciousness becomes another birth of consciousness perfectly analogous to the birth of organic consciousness on this planet, except this time, a million times more efficient than its predecessor.

We’ve taken the concept of organic evolution, transposed it into software updates and upgrades, and later extracted and injected it into base reality. At the end of the day, software updates are immensely faster than genetic evolution or even epigenetics. We call this a feedback loop. If all goes well, when faced with our digital offspring, the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), we will have the chance to integrate into symbiotic cyber-humans, part machine and part human. Signaling a departure from the homo sapiens branch in evolution to create an entirely novel tree of gene-edited Homo-species. Trademarked and sold by startups and mega-corporations as an over-the-air (OTA) update to your purposefully-crafted hollow human existence that can be improved ten-fold by purchasing the superpower you always wanted. You want to be special, do you not? Take two of these red pills everyday to slip out of delirium and into a miniature luxury spa. And remember, the effect only works as long as you believe it works!

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