Humans might be technology
(Written: Apr 2017)

As living breathing animals, humans have evolved to a point where we have used our intelligence to not only survive, but thrive with all other living species. Our intelligence is what helps us accomplish our goals. Whether we encounter animals who have much more advanced defensive mechanisms or we encounter environmental limitations, we are able to thrive based on our evolutionary progressive adaptive and cognitive abilities. Whether we want to believe it or not we are a frail species that manipulates the environment around us in order to create a comfortable habitual environment for us to exist in.  

​Because of our advanced cognitive abilities we are able to create metaphors that make sense to us through technology. Whether it is building an interface on our computers that replicates a desktop or a utilizing a trashcan in that same environment for which we “throw away” our files; we are creating a human condition that is familiar to our physical surroundings.

The further we go down the path of cognitive evolution, the more advanced our metaphors become. Over just the last century we have not only imagined what might become of our future environments but also bring them into fruition. From the ideas introduced to us through people who bring us episodes of Star Trek and other various creative mediums we are able to not only ideate but come up with practical solutions based on those ideas. Most of these ideas come into fruition because technologies advance to the point where talented individuals are able to harness a platform in order to execute these innovations.

​Although we think of advanced spacecrafts and futuristic cities when thinking of the advancement of the human race, we always are drawn to basic metaphors on how we live our lives as humans in a familiar organic environment. When it comes to building an ultimate metaphor we have always prioritized ourselves as a human species. Whether you want to believe it or not we are mentally slaves to the survival of our species. It is much easier to think that we care for other humans, not to mention all other species on Earth. The fact of the matter is, when we are placed in desperate situations, we act in desperate measures. When we are fighting for our lives against another species or another human being, we use those primitive instincts which have been built through evolution to promote the survival of not only our species but our own genetics.

Because of this primordial and sometimes unavoidable instinct we create technologies that benefit our own human race. This has led to the development of human metaphors like robots and androids. These metaphors, although not an exact representation most of the time, are an iteration of what is to come. Because we are are genetically predispositioned (compared to other species) with advanced cognitive abilities, we will continue to survive not only through natural reproduction but through technological advancements into the future.

​As we become more technologically advanced, so will our metaphors. Our technological advancements will eventually create metaphors that become organic in nature. Our energy sources will begin to absorb natural energy, our motherboards will become a metaphor for our brains, and our robots will begin to have human personalities with what we perceive as real feelings. Cables will become veins,  data will begin to act as brain cells and the list goes on... We will eventually reach a point where it will be indistinguishable between android and human.

When we have reached the point of passing on our genetics through technology (which has now become organic) wouldn’t it make sense that the human race would want to spread those genetics in any way possible?

​Once we have turned the page seamlessly from android to human, we would have gotten to a point where we no longer have to control or monitor that technology (which at this level of technology will become what know a species represents). We will  have created a version of genetic DNA  that is able to thrive and reproduce on its own.
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​Because there are limited resources on this planet we face the inevitable possibility that our species will become extinct on this planet. Although this is a grim outlook, it is inevitable. What will our species do when encountered with this situation? Most likely we will figure out other ways to survive whether it is on this planet or somewhere else. Most likely we will be faced with a very difficult decision that will likely lead us to that same instinctual decision that is presented to us when we are given the choice to live or die in a battle with another species or human on Earth today.

We would look for a planet that is conducive of human living conditions and try to populate that planet with our “DNA”; human or not. It would be organic in such an advanced way, that our organic technology could be more resilient at survival than what we know of our own species.

Why couldn’t a planet, like Earth, be a habitable place for something like this to occur? Has it happened already? Are we an organic technology?

​According to many religious beliefs, there is a notion that we are created in the image of "God". What if what we know as "God" was actually a designer from our original species, that lives on our original planet? If this were the case, we could still be created as an image of who we conceive as "God". In this scenario the intersection of religion and science come together in a beautiful way.

​This could all be possible and what we sometimes think of as black or white, most likely is a gray intersection. This intersection could easily make both rigid science facts and religion come together in a way that is completely feasible and possibly real.