Mind of my Stroked Brain

 There are 3 theories I am aware of with regard to how we evolved as species: 1. That it was a barren planet and one day couple of millions of years ago (or billions), by accident , a single cell figured out how to convert sunlight into its own energy and also by accident figured out how to divide itself and multiply. Many millions (or billions) of years of mistakes and many species evolved. We are one of them . 2. We were a barren planet and one day a meteorite crashed (it was very common millions of years ago with no atmosphere to burn it up). It carried with it cells with some degree of evolution on intelligence (DNA) and how to multiply and many species evovled from this seeding. It still took millions of years, but it had a leg-up in the process. 3. There are many (or one) superpower somewhere who designed the evolution and species and created all species according to that plan/ design. All 3 are very plausible theories and what we make our own is true for us. The thing I have rea

Last couple of days, I have been seeing a bunch of videos/ talks on AI/ Algorithms/ robotics, etc. Nothing new about most of it... There is a common underlying thread though - that they will never get better than us, because we have "consciousness" on our side. Better doesn't mean intelligent - that they already are. It's more about having a combination of thought intelligence and emotional intelligence. I guess that is about "consciousness". I feel we are taking a lot of credit for "consciousness" when we don't know what it is. Have also seen many videos and talks on it, where nobody agrees and all we have are some wild theories. I don't know if consciousness has to be one type as well. Maybe there are different types. Maybe it will be different for inorganically evolved beings than organically evolved beings. I think the turning point is not consciousness. We humans take about 20-25 years to grow up and get knowledgeable. After that, anot