The premise is this: spending so much time with our heads in the digitized clouds of technological innovation, we ourselves are adopting the very qualities that we seek to instill into our creations.

Weve created processors and supercomputers that can operate with the kind of efficiency that we cant even begin to understand and, while were itching to literally incorporate such technical savvy into our own organs, weve begun to emulate these desired characteristics however we can.

We want to be efficient. We want to be optimized and we want to view ourselves as upgradable. We want more RAM, faster processors, more user-friendly interfacing, improved connectivity, a better battery. And were working on it, furiously.

But how far is too far?

Its almost asinine to suggest that we should halt such progress because, after all, progress is progress. Why not improve ourselves at such a relentless capacity?

Eventually, we have to examine the meaning which underlies the sense of progress. We ought to realize what it is were hurdling towards and we ought to stop to contextualize the journey rather than the destination.

Assume that we bring ourselves to a state whereby we can install applications into our consciousness that eliminate the need for sleep. Suddenly, we gain a tremendous amount of time. Assume that we also adopt the capability to calculate like a quantum computer and exist in a state of optimized rationality.

Where is the reward to be found in this incessant and pursuit of perfection?

Is it in the fact that we can work harder for the corporations which employ us, or in the idea that we can now add more to our itineraries? Is it really a blessing to be able to fit five lifetimes in the span of one or might we be losing something in the simplicity of life today, something that may have already been lost when compared to the simplicity of yesterday.

Already we may miss the idle time that used to be afforded to us and the peace of mind before social media exploded into our existence; already we may envy the stillness and gentle lucidity of the natural human experience.

When we step back to look at whats really happening, we can almost classify our behavior as rather juvenile. Like children who become enamored with something they so desperately want to emulate, were willing to lose ourselves in our obsessions and drift along into the echelons of novelty as we forego the fundamental elements of human existence.

To simply live, disentangled from the contexts and constructs. To free ourselves from the traps of the hyper-obsessions which currently zip about, telling us what specific sort of diet and nutrition scheme works best or how we ought to think about thinking so we can think more efficiently.

The singularity ahead maybe its not about us creating self-aware technology or being able to slip into some eternally-comfortable form of virtual reality; maybe its not about us integrating with technology on a physical level but, rather, in a complete mental capacity, whereby we effectively become what were looking to create.

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The Singularity: Just Another Chapter | by Michael Woronko | The Apeiron Blog | Oct, 2020 - Medium