AS a clinician for more than 50 years I viewed the world through the life experiences of people from all walks of life – from poor to those rich in various cultural settings.
Fear has always dominated, as it does now, with life challenges aggravated by those in power who generally are motivated by greed.
Politics seems the main progenitor of the unnecessary burden, but we the people also contribute by our poor choices as well as the ever-dominating egocentric behaviour.
Religions may have mastered the fearmongering through describing the Fires of Hell in the afterlife, but politicians quickly capitalised upon it and described themselves as the tails, subject to the whims of the people.
They become master of slaves, as seen in US, Israel and Russia – similar threats from other neighbours.
All our lives have changed for the worse, except the few who initiate the war.
Fear regarding the direction AI is going is well-founded and will stunt human creativity, while our experience with religion and politics will be viewed as child play .
We all operated with similar emotional interactions in religion and politics, giving us the opportunity to walk in the shoes of others.
Computers do not wear shoes.
Is it too late to change, or are we doomed to restrict our thinking to the algorithm of a machine to survive?
Regards,
Jay Ruthnam,
Coffs Harbour.
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