Autogenesis 03

“To our descendants” THE MENTAL REVOLUTION

The human who uses AI as a surface of resistance to be forced, not as an oracle, produces something that neither the human alone nor artificial intelligence alone could have produced. Millennia-old dogmas do not implode because AI is powerful. They implode because the human has created a tool equal to his own intelligence in motion. What AI executes at robotic speed is directed, through intuition, by the human using this digital tool. Creation is not in the machine; it is in the mind of the one who knows when something grates.

Yet this revolution is being built upon the ruins of an education that has surrendered.

Yesterday, young people rebelled, were slapped, and began again. The friction between them and authority formed the mind. Parents have since delegated education to the screen: television, video games, smartphone, AI. Not through malice, but through mental comfort and ignorance of the consequences.

The child now grows up with little friction from real authority. The mind regresses toward instinct, impulse and ancestral animality. This is not new. In the Middle Ages and Antiquity, the child was already sacrificed without a second thought. We are returning there silently, with a screen in our hands.

A child who passively consumes TikTok atrophies. I, confined to my bed at eighty and at the end of life, apply a lifetime of mental strategy to a machine and continue to develop my brain. Before I die in oblivion, robotics avenges me upon all those who believed that the expression of intelligence was their privilege.

Before every rebound, humanity always reaches rock bottom. Perhaps we are there. Wars and violence among the young bear witness to it.

Mathius TO’ERAU, the Suréviste