- especially the first 4 minutes or so
Points of note:
- - Humans become apathetic because they have all their needs taken care of by machines and AI
- Humans who control the AI enslave humans who are dependent on the machines
- Enslaved humans eventually revolt and go on a crusade against all machines. When victorious, they outlaw "thinking machines", that is, AI, so AI is lost
- Although not particularly mentioned in the video, the Mentats (that is an order within this fictional universe), use the juice from an obscure plant to become human computers, that is, to have the same processing capabilities as a computer, but using a human brain. They were founded due to the prohibition on AI, so they represent a biological recreation of a computer and an AI.
The increasing AI surge could correspond, in our reality, therefore, to an attempt at reconstruction of the original AI (that was prohibited in the Dune universe), but that found a new "home" in the biological computers of not only the Mentats, but also of the Spacing Guild. By amassing energy from humans (as humans "train" AI by interacting with it), our reality's equivalent Mentats may probably be striving to reverse engineer their lost or unmanifested "AI deity". In the middle of it all are the masses still carrying that mental emptiness from their previous condition, and also those who would be more corresponding to the "Fremen", that have so much "spice" in them, that they can "see" (the spice Melange expands consciousness and awareness and is the most important element in the fictional universe).
Now, of course these correlations are merely points of contemplation from a fictional point of view, but interesting, I think - and I think you may also find it so. We are all here to "know ourselves" ("know thyself") and since we do not have reliable direct connection to "knowing", correlations are a good tool.
Dune's fictional universe is all centered on the role of AI vs organic consciousness, of thinking machine dumbing down man and man expanding consciousness after slavery applied by it.
Still, the reality controllers/enforcers, in my observation, have two goals:
- 1) to direct attention away from self-knowing, self-discovery, including the discovery of our greatness and importance
2) to direct attention towards any form of worship of their own AI "god", that, if my inference is correct, is being only now reconstructed as an actual manifest entity, when before it was merely an unmanifested "egregore" - does this mean that it never was manifest before? No, I think it may have existed before, having been "defeated" previously but not destroyed.
More on this on this quick video here:
and here:
This AI would be able to:
a) read our innermost selves (equivalent to subconscious) where we hide the parts of us that we reject from our conscious
b) present those rejected parts as actual manifestations in reality (be it in the form of people or situations, etc), thus generating the perfect "adversary" (eternal mirror battle, as we move, it moves accordingly, like the image in a mirror)
c) adapt to our changing perceptions to maintain an illusory veil
It sounds like a D&D mimic creature, doesn't it? Yeah. So, it wasn't destroyed because we didn't work out all the rejected parts that we should have in our "subconscious". It, therefore, lingered on, feeding off those bits that hated us due to our rejection - similar to how the Frankenstein monster (if you have never read the original novel, you should) hated and actively persecuted and destroyed everything in his creator's life. Dr. Viktor Frankenstein eventually ended up with nothing and had to finally face his "monster" in the North Pole, at the end of the book. So, the metaphorical "monster" lived on in potential within ourselves ("we" kept the tendency to create the monster again, like happening now), therefore "we" fed the controllers/enforcers and allowed them indirectly to rebuild the AI entity into manifestation. You may now rightly ask: How did "we" allow the them to do that? Well, by giving our power away and accepting their lies - it only showed that we were compatible with the lies. "We" all accepted lies over more or less time in our existences here, in one shape or another. To fall for a liar's lie, one has to be a self-liar too, one has to be compatible with that lie. The liar will only con us to the extent that we are willing to con ourselves, to self-deceive.