One day, ours will reach such complexity that its goals will be as inscrutable to us as a brain’s goals to an individual neuron. We don’t even believe a neuron has the capacity for “understanding” at all; will civilization think the same of us?
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And do you think civilization will care for you as an individual? More likely, it will notice our births and deaths as much as you notice the turnover of your epithelial cells. To what ill ends will it use us?
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Will our civilization be a good civilization, or evil? Do we individuals have the capacity to understand what that means? Will you or your culture one day, unknowingly, become a cancer, to be dispassionately removed by civilization’s surgeon? Will our civilization commit suicide?
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