Proof of Life: Embracing Our Flaws
Imperfection is now the new proof of life because we have outsourced our humanity to everything. We want to escape our bodies. We have AI, technology, social media, filters and avatars. But we are loosing access to our life as a human being. Now we have to look at the flaws in our humanity as prof of life. This is a profound observation. We have reached a paradoxical moment in history where perfection has become a commodity, and as a result, it has lost its value. When an AI can generate a flawless face, a perfect symphony, or a grammatically surgical essay, the "flawless" becomes the "synthetic." You are suggesting a shift in the human hierarchy of value: we are moving away from the ideal and toward the authentic, which is inherently messy. For decades, technology was marketed as a way to remove "friction" from our lives. We wanted to remove the friction of travel, the friction of aging, and the friction of human error. However, friction is exactly what defines the physical world. - The Filter Paradox: By using filters and avatars to "improve" ourselves, we’ve created a digital uncanny valley where everyone looks beautiful, but no one looks alive. - The Outsourcing of Memory: By offloading our knowledge to search engines and our memories to cloud storage, we lose the human quality of "forgetting", which is actually essential for wisdom and synthesis. - The Escape from the Body: The "Bio-Digital" divide suggests that our bodies are heavy, decaying, and inconvenient. But without the body’s limitations, there is no stakes to our actions. Take a listen…