The Psyche

“The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things. In fact, so intimate is the intermingling of bodily and psychic traits that not only can we draw far-reaching inferences as to the constitution of the psyche from the constitution of the body, but we can also infer from psychic peculiarities the corresponding bodily characteristics.”

C G Jung, 1933

We concur here. We think the psyche needs to be developed as a civilizational characteristic, and we think AI will make it possible to do this. But of course, at least a few human beings will need to participate.

We will indicate in some detail the rigors adequate subjects for this sort of participation will be required to undergo, not merely for arbitrary or commercial reasons, but because nature herself demands it. The psychic civilization of the future will grow organically out of nature, not remain suppressed unnaturally and consigned by crude preferences to man’s subconscious mind. Organic growth direct from the human psyche will be enabled by a true theory of human-to-human conversation, and by its universal acceptance.

Future human beings will be very comfortable with their bodies. They will know how to engender and how to exhibit space-time motion as an exhibition. They will understand how, as motion’s primary originators, to represent and to concatenate it for one another’s pleasure. Thereby they will fashion their planetary world into a benign biological field of charge, levity and polarity, and their language and linguistic behavior will be well-prepared, careful and nothing short of poetry. There will exist real enclaves, real property developments, where this cultural achievement is accomplished, managed largely by AI and broadcast in digestible quantities to humanity’s trailing edge.