Wednesday 24 August 2016

Who will take a higher moral ground?



Probably you are from a broken family or have a kin or a neighbour who endure the same trouble times. Probably you have overcome a grudge or a guilt feeling in recent past or perhaps going through the burden right now or at least anticipating in the near future. Looking around there simply no perfect family or a perfect and pristine person. To be human is to come along with imperfection as a priori attributes whether we like it or not. The genesis or the origins of this gosh is simply a rhetoric because hardly any tangible progress had been made since Plato’s era. Human error like any other concept is also a relative term which means any specific behaviour or action might be wrong in one social culture milieu but an excellent performance in other society. Civilization that have flourish in might and power have never fail to detect and impose the wrongness of anything that is right among the so called primitive or barbarians.

Human and Gods are the only sentient being which accounts free will. The free will of the former is too illusive and the latter is just too delusive. We have not yet defy dead and intrinsic desire to live nor yet seduce in to suicide. Immortal man is the species in waiting to be a mortal God. Natural evolution has brought us to where we are today and artificial intelligence is taking as ahead where our heart lies. In this count and current advancement in computer technology, neuro science and bioengineering we are exponentially improving our artificial intelligence. Transhumanism has capture the imagination of higher form of super human being. The interim is that our machine are becoming smarter almost in to perfection.

Today, gadgets and machines are very reliable and the same expectation from human being on specific areas such as accurate calculation or recording are just too futile. We would rather bank on alarm clock than your most trusted lover to remind us of unimportant events or even taking life warranting medicine. Learning is getting more electronic and down the path where one day we would have a very compassionate robotic teacher with the right trait of ideal teacher. When google drive us to office with higher safety assurance and a robotic lawyer defending our case in the court we would have so much time to worry about trivial things. But, at the backdoor our machine or technology will get smarter and smarter.


However progressive or advance we can’t imagine a sentient computer or technology in the near future. Even then hypothetically that’s the era where the machine can take a higher moral ground against human species and over our Gods. They would make our behaviour or capacities worthless and obsolete. Any external agents (may be other species form other universe) who happen to observe the realities would surely find the reference of moral judgement in artificial entity. Few technical nerds would continue to design smarter machine. This only implies that their reliability would simply increase and so their moral standard. Yesterday fiction is today reality and who dare bat that our fictions and imagination would not be tomorrow reality? The moral standard or moral ground as we understand today would be tomorrow occupy by our gadgets. We might have to evolved for ourselves a different form of morality, a more abstract or ironic concept of morality. It is still for us to wait and watch and not judge. 

No comments:

Post a Comment