How evolution, consciousness, and the search for meaning collide with AI, free will, and technological singularity

An incremental and adaptive development of policies based on gradual diffusion of AI is preferable to dramatic interventions of the technology

All it takes is a virus that has created a cloud of uncertainty, the goals have disappeared and life has boiled down to survival. Enlightenment, if it means anything, is not the sudden light of a thousand suns, but the dark crevices in our minds filled with fear.