Per stemperare le tensioni sui paventati rischi esistenziali dell’AI per l’umanità, è utile concedersi in alternativa uno sguardo esoplanetario. Tre testi illuminanti che raccontano delle nostre estroflessioni fisiche e filosofiche nello spazio cosmico … che da ultimo si rivelano essere, anche e soprattutto, delle introspezioni nella natura umana. Che è, dovremmo saperlo, nativamente e ininterrottamente sempre avventata nel produrre le condizioni della sua abitabilità, nel suo terraformare i pianeti, Terra compresa. Siamo una specie che rischia senza fine l’essere dei (suoi) mondi (Accoto 2023). Buona lettura 😉
< … Now that we know there are at least as many exoplanets as stars, we can put our planet in a larger context. The conclusion: Earth is not the best of all possible worlds. Life did not start in naturalist Charles Darwin’s “warm little pond.” It probably began in the darkness and crushing pressure of a hydrothermal vent. Early humans did not aggregate in the balmy tropics. They roamed the arid expanses of Africa’s deserts, and hunted near the glaciers and on the tundra of the last Ice Age. Life is tenacious and has gripped this planet like a fever for four billion years. Life is adaptable and has radiated into almost every conceivable environmental niche. The universe contains an immense number of exoplanets. These worlds without end are of interest to planetary scientists and geologists, but that is not our main concern. We are fixed on their potential to host biology. We are curious whether the experiment that began on Earth soon after its formation has been replicated anywhere else. For if we live in a biological universe, it’s a universe much more fascinating than one completely described by the laws of physics. The universe becomes a place of almost infinite possibilities—a place where we might one day make another home or find companionship on him …> (Worlds Without End, 2023)
ps. per quanto concerne il nostro pianeta e l’AI, invece, potete leggere il mio ultimo post su “Il Pianeta Latente” che parla di “provocazione” e non di “estinzione”
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