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Homo Deus, Algorithms, and the Crisis of Meaning: Consciousness in the Age of Data

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Homo Deus, Algorithms, and the Crisis of Meaning: Consciousness in the Age of Data

About Homo Deus: Man, Consciousness, and Algorithms

Today I’ve finally finished reading the much-talked-about book “Homo Deus,” so I’m going to write my thoughts about it. (There are some great summaries out there, so please refer to them.) However, I’m just writing down what I thought, so it may be a little off the main topic of the book. In the past (and even today), it was God who gave people meaning. God gave meaning to humans as something special, separate from other animals, and while binding people through rituals and sacrifices, he also gave people the sense that their lives are not in vain, that they must have some meaning. But a great crisis of meaning is coming: God is dead. Scientific development has revealed that the world, and even human beings, are nothing more than a collection of algorithms. As a result, the supernatural has lost its authority to give meaning to people.

Humans have succeeded in giving meaning to things by reversing the idea. They have given meaning to human experiences and thoughts themselves.

Here, humans have constructed a vast web of meaning called humanity itself, incorporating everyone into it.But humans have taken this too far: They’ve built algorithms that are superior to humans, and humans are beginning to hand over control to them. These algorithms enhance humans, making them act as if they were gods, even though the control is held by data and by algorithms that use data. This has put the meaning that people can give to other people into a crisis. We are asking ourselves, what will give meaning to the next world ,and what will it be like?

Why do humans need meaning in the first place?

Without meaning for people, humans cannot function in society, because individual interests and collective interests often conflict, and society is nothing more than the maximization of collective interests. So, what if a world were to emerge where the interests of the individual and the interests of the group were perfectly aligned? What if maximizing the interests of many individuals was also maximizing the interests of the group, and individuals were able to recognize this? What if we came to automatically choose between these two optimizations as self-evident? An algorithm that transcends humans and is created from all data extracted from the universe, isn’t that what it means?

The algorithm gives us self-evident behavior, and we follow it automatically, without any room for meaning.

Ancient Gods and Modern Algorithms

If we think of algorithms as ancient gods, then it would seem that they are not so different from following the divine oracles, and that they provide a just cause for humans. However, this is not the case. For example, sacrificing a cow would bring rain, so they would kill a cow. In other words, they become assimilated with the god that gives them meaning. In this world, meaning has no inherent value.

The Disappearance of Consciousness

If we define consciousness as “making value judgments in a context,” then consciousness disappears when meaning disappears, because context itself does not exist or is uninterpretable in this world. In the first place, we perceive consciousness because there is meaning. The reason I eat beef and pork without a second thought and feel nothing when I see news about Syrian refugees is thatn’t give them meaning. As soon as I give meaning to their suffering, I might cry at the plight of cows and pigs and become a vegan. I might even donate tens of thousands of yen to Syria.

On the other hand, it is difficult for humans to perceive consciousness in something that has not been given meaning. This may be true for me as well. If so, then 100 years from now, I may be able to recognize my life and death as having equal value, just like the liberated Indian ascetic. Because there is no longer any meaning for me.

A Vision from Harmony

One of my favorite novels is “Harmony” by a writer named Project Itoh. The protagonist’s best friend, a girl named Miach, aims to achieve “harmony” for humanity by implanting micromachines into the brains of humans and making them behave in self-evident ways. The girl was born without consciousness, but after repeated violence, she began to develop consciousness. The protagonist asks if she aims for harmony because she hates the humans who implanted consciousness in her, and Miach replies:

The Choice We Still Have

How we think about this evolution is up to each individual. At least, as someone born into the value system of “humanism,” I perceive the loss of consciousness as a loss. However, if you perceive it as liberation, you can go with the flow. While you are still conscious.

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