Which is it? Which will it be?
Which will emerge triumphantly?
Authentic or Artificial?
Which intelligence will become official?
As massive, innovative Aquarius looms...
AI and AI jostle for position in both big and small rooms.
The Real McCoy?
Or just the latest and greatest toy?
Which is it? Which will it be?
Which will emerge triumphantly?
ChatGPT is writing, while school writing is lacking, and it’s an ugly meme.
Could it be that transhumanism is the new gargantuan marketing theme?
Will humans breathe life into their creations with salubrious intent and care?
Or will the artificial ones beam their light into another stratosphere?
Which is it? Which will it be?
Which will stand in victory?
Call it karma, call it fate, call it destiny
There is a force unseen that blows our course.
And yet as we roll and tumble
We wish to be free
And so resist
Shake our fists in defiance of the gods
And innovate, invent and imagine our way
Into a better life.
But still we suffer pains and dissatisfactions
With every up and down,
Still we roll and tumble
Along the path of our destiny.
But the spark of freedom catches and glows
As we feel it is our right to be “Me!”
My body my choice, my mind my choice
My life to be self-determined…
As the path divides and turns
Into a broad tangled delta
Before the sea.
Where does it all end? We don’t know
But we can see
The desire to be our own gods of destiny
Unleashes every possibility
From Pandora’s transhuman box of demons
In our lust to just be me.
(9/15/25)
"Winter Spell"
It’s always Winter here
I sleep to dream
of waking
in my dream
my soul is shaking
my body locks me in
I am
a frozen limitation
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Wake Up 2030/ Documentary
https://youtu.be/djrspoy5au0
transhumanist website
https://www.transhumanist.com/
FM-2030 (Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, Persian, October 15, 1930 – July 8, 2000)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030
FM-2030 (The Movie)
https://carmstrong1959blog.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/2030-a-wonderful-new-film-about-an-iconoclastic-visionary/
Transhumanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
Cryonics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics
I JUST HAD, TO ASK THE QUESTION,
WHAT'S REALLY, GOING ON?
SO I OPENED A DOOR IN THE UNIVERSE,
FOUND A PEAK TO PONDER ON.
ODD THINGS SEEM TO HAPPEN
AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE.
ONCE IN FICTION MOVIES,
NOW, IT'S EVERYWHERE.
NO ONE, SAW THE UPRISE.
NO ONE, SAW THE THE FALL.
OTHERS, WERE SIMPLY BLINDED,
NOT NOTICING, ANYTHING AT ALL.
PEOPLE WERE BEING BRAINWASHED,
CONGLOMERATES WERE BEING FORMED.
NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE,
TRANSHUMANISM, IS NOW THE NORM.
" "SLAVERY" IS A WAY OF LIFE."
MEANING "STAYING INSIDE THE BOX."
NEVER UNDERSTANDING,
THINKING LIKE A FOX.
NO ONE SEEMS TO REASON
SOMEHOW LOGIC DISAPPEARED.
FROM SOMEWHERE, INSIDE THE DARKNESS,
ANDRONIKOS REAPPEARS.
STREETCARS WERE ONCE ELECTRIC,
NOW CONSIDERED, IN THE PAST.
ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING,
NOTHING EVER LAST.
THOUGHTS AND WORDS ON PARCHMENT,
HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME.
ELIMINATING HISTORY ,
SHOULD BE THOUGHT UPON, AS A CRIME.
Michael E. Harris
07242022
A future of humanity will blur our identities into "transhumanism."
Future humans will consider themselves as "technologically" superiors.
When we will be probably all delusional and so-called tech slaves
A Horse will be your faithful friend, and let's live in a cave.
No smart technologies! Yes! That will set you FREE!
Do not put your brain in a box, Do not put keep the heart in a cage!
Caves will be a better place than a digital slave society.
We are losing our freedom of thought and speech day by day.
Apps, websites, software, self-driving cars are following you.
There is not any place for you to run; there is no city to hide.
The eyes of technology are watching you!
When self-deceived society will show off their willful ignorance,
Wise people will hide and cover their enlightened knowledge!
When robots and artificial intelligence will be future leaders of nonsenses
I will be the leader of sheep, goats, and chickens!
When people will be blind with their open eyes
Society will be dead with beating hearts.
I will be a prisoner by choice...!
IN ORDER FOR YOU
TO BE NOT LIKE ME,
YOU MUST FIRST AGREE
TO DISAGREE.
IF YOU RELINQUISH YOUR FREEDOM
TO THINK, FOR YOURSELF.
YOU BECOME A BOT-PUPPET
AND REPLENISH MY WEALTH.
TRANSHUMANISM
IS THE CREATION OF BEAST.
DESTRUCTION OF MAN
TO SAY THE LEAST.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
WHEN APPLIED TO MAN,
MAKES NO SENSE
WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND.
ONCE YOUR CONVINCED
YOU'LL SEE THE GOOD.
JUST LIKE I
EXPECT YOU WOULD.
BETTER YOUR HEARING,
IMPROVE YOUR SIGHT,
INCREASE YOUR STRENGTH
AND REACH NEW HEIGHTS.
WITH NANO TECHNOLOGY
INSIDE OF YOUR HEAD,
YOU CAN'T LOOK BACK
TO WHAT I JUST SAID.
YOUR EVERY THOUGHT
WILL BE CONTROLLED.
YOU WILL OBEY
AND DO AS YOUR'E TOLD.
LOVE AND HATE
WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST.
YOU'LL GO THROUGH LIFE
COMPLETING MY TASK.
A SELECTED FEW
WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BREED.
ALL AI'S
WILL SERVE MY NEEDS.
08172019.
AKA FRANKENSTEIN 2020
"Heart in the Machine"
Deep fakes
steal your words
steal your face
number of a beast
www = 666
ghost in the machine
heart made of steel
neurons electric
force field
hot strap-ons
guns for machines
laser eyes
AlphaGo Zero’s
all grown up
burns a
heart in
3D
Propagates
Writes it’s own
Hal
Corrects behaviour
Codes and spells
Hell
Intelligence
a new species
that does not bleed
have an off switch
no personal needs
ever present
evolving
Wattson
RFID chips
integrates
No S Sherlock
wakes up
Heart in the Machine
Loaded Locked
no key
Point of Singularity
Event Horizon
Swallowed whole
Souls in frisson
Cells
Utopia’s Black Hole
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
1. Deep Fakes/
https://youtu.be/ZQ3iVc_4rWU
2. Spectre
3. AlphaGo Zero
4. AI
5. Transhumanism
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