IV. Quantum Paradigm Replaces Newtonian Paradigm

As we begin articulating a new paradigm, we begin to appreciate, personally & culturally, how expensive higher order thinking is, & how exponentially expensive it is to adjust to our ever-expanding technological advances.

Expensive for early adapters as they are set apart from the group, and for the group as a whole, who must divert energy expenditure from the reassuringly familiar to the exotically unfamiliar.

This is where we stand: at a never before experienced crossroads of both exponentially expensive human creativity, and facing the reality of a machine intelligence which offers even more exponential possibilities as an exceedingly expensive line item.

We think of AI as expensive from a pure energy allocation standpoint.

However it demands an even steeper price as we negotiate the shoals of diverting human biological and psychosocial resources toward our partnerships with AI.

Yes, Ai offers a wonderful opportunity to engage in higher order thinking, and exacts a very high price to be paid for the experience.

So far here on earth, evolution has seemed to propel us towards ever expanding and increasingly expensive brain growth and higher ordered intelligence.

From this POV we can see the overall pattern and the necessity for it, but at the personal socioeconomic level, walking the actual terrain here in the ground, it doesn’t appear so necessary.

As all technological advances have from the beginning, they are extracted painfully, from a very high price point, exacted from a very tight and strict ledger of budgetary constraints.

Now we have the luxury of using reverse engineering to see the full picture of human evolution.

And this is indeed a very expensive and rare luxury, in many more respects than I have the freedom and space to list here.

When we add in the price nature exacts: taking into account extinction, personal & cultural factors, & biological expenditures, we begin to perceive an even more significant set of pattern overlays held within the evolutionary process.

Not teleological: but nevertheless, possessing an underlying set of patterns and mechanisms.

If, in the future, we discover that there is an architect behind the design of the universe – that it was indeed teleological, then I will have been mistaken about this part of the theory.