AI compared to what humanity could truly achieve

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readOct 9, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“What do you think about AI?”

In truth, I do not think about AI at all. I use AI when it is useful; I answer questions about AI when they ask me. But, by myself, I do not have any specific thoughts about AI.

AI is a tool which we can use when it is useful.

Instead of AI, I am thinking about how for what goals and with what intentions we could use our tools so we could solve our mounting problems and prevent new ones.

I am thinking about what unique empirical natural scientists — who have been studying and describing human nature for millennia — promise us. They promise that if we could build nature-like, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing Human co-existence and cooperation — above and against our inherently and 100% selfish, egotistic, and individualistic nature — we could also develop a unique collective Human consciousness and intelligence that could attain and understand nature’s all-encompassing and perfect system in its totality, without any inherently egocentric and subjective bias and limitations.

I imagine and partially already feel — as a result of practicing a unique method that can assist us in reaching the above — the vast and previously unimaginable benefits of such a collective consciousness and composite perception of reality when people start to sense and experience reality through each other’s thoughts, desires, feelings and viewpoints, while completely forgetting about themselves.

Such a gradually developed and sensed collective sense of existence can elevate us above all our present limitations of time, space, and physical motion and can liberate us from even feeling physical life or death. After all, when we commit and devote our personal existence to feel and fulfill others totally selflessly and unconditionally, we detach ourselves from sensing our conscious observer existing tied to a biological body with its physical senses — even if that biological body still seemingly exists.

If we all learned and practiced how to exist through positive, selfless, and unconditionally serving and loving intentions and aspirations towards each other in a mutually supporting and mutually complementing environment, we wouldn’t need physical and material desires, actions, and perceptions to feel life and existence any longer.

So when we have such a realistic, tangible, and actual opportunity before us we can all reach here and now, why would I think about AI, which is like a very limited and obsolete tool compared to what we can build between us?!

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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