BBC1 11.25pm the Natives: This is our America: At Standing Rock, helping the Lakota people of the Pine Ridge reservation and the DAPL situation

The sacred symbol of the feather at Standing Rock -

All the American Indian tribes people are children of the feather

What do you know about DAPL, Standing Rock, the Lakota people?

A BBC1 program takes you there, but here's a primer to give you a head start...

Sioux nation

The Sioux nation, of which the Lakota people are one tribe, live near to a place called Standing Rock in North Dakota. This is where the DAPL North Dakota oil pipeline is being installed.

I have learned much about the Lakota culture and it is truly fascinating. The Lakota like many other tribes lived a simple life, but they enjoyed things we today with all our trappings of wealth and consumerism have lost.

A Pine Ridge man surveys the Buffalo

the heritage between Lakota and Buffalo goes back countless years

They had little if any crime, no laws, no taxes, young and old were cared for and safe in their society, we might call this a utopia, until the 1600's for people like the Lakota, this was 'normal.'

The Eagle that arrived at Standing Rock -

a message of support from the Lakota ancestors?

The Buffalo nation - 'Tatanka oyate'

The Lakota Indians refer to themselves as 'Tatanka oyate' the Buffalo people or Buffalo nation, their  lifestyle was on the lines of 'the planet owns man, man does not own the planet'  - they were the 'new age' long before aspects of their lifestyle was 'borrowed' in the 1960's.

The White Buffalo - part of Lakota heritage -

a human woman was said to have shape shifted from a white buffalo calf

and given the Lakota people guidance and told them their purpose.

The Lakota people were corralled into reservations, Pine Ridge being one, Porcupine Ridge another, in the shadow of the sacred Black Hills. The US Government that long ago took the Indian lands, often gave reservations back to the Indians, which contained valuable resources.

For the Lakota people, the Black hills contain valuable resources, but the Lakota out of principal, refuse to sell the hills for mineral wealth exploitation.

All the American Indian people have affinity and regard for the animals in our world that fit in with their beliefs.

The late Russell Means - a great advocate for progress for humanity,

regardless of people's origin - a legend and hero

Famous Lakota people

Famous Lakota people from the Sioux nation have become well known, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse from the past and modern day people such as Russell Means have by their own efforts shown great presence, knowledge and earned a place in human history.

The idyllic looking Pine Ridge, where the Black Snake is headed

The Black snake

The North Dakota Pipeline is an oil transfer pipeline which will send oil across the top of the US to refineries. This pipeline is said to be routed across sacred Sioux burial grounds and the concern is that leakage of oil into watercourses such as the Mississippi river would be catastrophic.

Unarmed people from the Sioux nation and other tribes as well as people

from other countries, came to Standing Rock to peacefully represent their views

The confrontation

The name 'Lakota' means 'peaceful people' and the people who gathered at Standing Rock were certainly that. Yet, they were met by a militarized police presence that sprayed them with tear gas and attacked the unarmed and peaceful people with batons and worse.

People from all nations came to support the Sioux people, tribes that had been hostile to each other for some time also came together to support the Sioux, a situation of reconciliation that was worthwhile, perhaps meant to happen.

Still the stand against the pipeline goes on.

So what is life like at Pine Ridge reservation?

Life at Pine Ridge is grim - but the people are resilient

and trying to make a better life

Many people think that Indian reservations are rich from Casino Dollars, far from it. At Pine Ridge, a situation exists that should shame America, if not the rest of the world.

The Lakota people are living in a situation that if it was Africa, would have fund-raising pop concerts raising money for it and massive relief efforts pouring in by the truckload. However, the Lakota don't benefit from the 'debt to slavery' card being played.

Africa has had trillions of Dollars given to it, by rights it should be a first world country all over, yet we still get media reports of poverty and third world conditions -  so where has the money gone?

If only places like Pine Ridge could get investments of money and materials....

Sadly for Pine Ridge this is not happening and the Lakota people like many of the other tribes are facing great hardship.

I have been working for free with some of the people there to help with advice on building economic growth through responsible commerce going, in line with their respect for resources beliefs and I am hopeful that the Lakota people can help themselves back to a situation that is good for them

The town of White Clay abuts Pine Ridge and has a number of

liquor stores that feed alcoholism - an incoherent man here on the ground is one

victim of this very economically poor area of America

Alcoholism and addiction must be defeated

Sadly, with the despair of the grinding poverty at Pine Ridge, some of the Lakota are turning to Alcohol and narcotics to try and block out the reality of their lot. This situation must be defeated and turned around for the Lakota people to be able to enjoy life and not be poisoned by these vile alternatives.

The Sacred Fireplace project

One man has a vision to turn this sort of problem around, a Lakota man named Pete Catches. He is the grandson of the legendary Lakota Chief Crazy Horse.

Pete V. Catches at home at Pine Ridge

Pete Catches dedicating offerings a the Oceti Wakan site

Oceti Wakan is a Lakota phrase meaning 'Sacred fireplace'  -  the purpose of this project is to provide a cultural centre to preserve the Lakota heritage and culture, also to provide education to the young Lakota people to learn the Lakota language and to provide preventative information on addiction.

You can visit the website here and donate if you wish at http://www.ocetiwakan.org/

There is hope

A new home being built at Pine Ridge from sustainable materials

There is no doubt that the Lakota people at Pine Ridge need help to survive. Their problems include a need to live an authentic life but in a modern world. My advice to them is 'The future is the past, is the future.'

My message is that building on an American Indian piece of wisdom 'you already have everything within you to succeed' that the Lakota look at their heritage which provides them with a wealth of knowledge and free resources that they can direct to ways of creating some wealth, whilst doing the least damage.

To the non-Indian people, we have a lot to learn from people like the Lakota. The ways of consumerism are putting us on a course of running out of planet. We need to modify what we do and redefine our modus operandi.

A number of far-sighted American Indian people have made prophecies that would come to be true - World Wars, telecommunications, railways, to name but a few. They also predicted a time when humans would all have to come together to survive, that time may be with us soon.

The Medicine Wheel  - Coincidentally the colours signify the colours of people -

White, Yellow, Red and Black

From the Clay

A Sioux man told the story of how the great creator which the Lakota call 'Wakan Tanka' fashioned a human 'out of clay'  -  the same is true of the bible in which it is said Adam was made from the Clay.

The Sioux story is that the human from the Clay was baked and three attempts were made to get the colour right, on the fourth attempt, the great creator succeeded in making the Red man.

Adam or 'Adamu' means from the Earth, from the rib is a mistranslation.

The wisdom of the American Indians is amazing -

I would have loved to have met Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Wisdom

One of my great friends was half Commanche Indian and although I knew him for only 12 years, he was one of my great friends. He was a WW2 veteran and was about 40 years older than me at the time.

I came across the American Indian wisdom whilst doing some research for a book on robotics of all things and this coincided about three or so years ago with my own transition of my life.

Suddenly the base of my life shifted and when I started to look into the wisdom, I found much I was already thinking along similar lines too. This wasn't just me, it was others who were starting to re-think what they were doing. Looking into this I found it was happening across the planet.

The conclusion I came to was that we as a species need to change and the people who could help us with that are the American Indian people.

Clapham Omniblog: Awstrahlia?

Clapham Omniblog - Awstrahlia?

In which Colin and Reg discuss Col's trip to Australia

*Please note the following is a verbatim transcription from the original pigeon cockerney*

Reg: Fack me Col, where's you bin, ah fawht yerd gawn an' died.

Col: 'old yer bleedin' awses Reg, ah's bin ter Awstrahlier, dintcha git me bleedin' postcard?

Reg: Yer, yer muss 'ave a right bundle of Orange ter affawd vat sort awliday.

Col: Well, aye ahd wun of vose anewdities come up, sah ver awld trahble insisted we went aht ver ter see her cuzzin.

Reg: Any good?

Col: Fackin mayzin myte. Fakkin bawstid of a jerney, abaht a day's flight.

Reg: Jer miss Cannin' 'ahn venn?

Col: No.

Reg: My old woman's awn abaht gahn abrawd, fackin' Majawkus or summat like vat. Myte look et Bennydawm or Ibeefia awr Lanzerotti. Spose it beats Clacton or Sarfend.

Col: Sarfend's ver awrsole awve Essix, 'sa ryte fackin' dump. Ver's awl vose re'irement places up ver East cahst, lyke Nawfuk en Linkunsheer, noyzee beacis in ver summa en fackin' wet and grey in ver fackin winn'a.

Reg: Yer, maykez yer looz ver fackin' will, dunnit? Fack me, s'lahk an jerry attrix's open prison. 'Ere, dja kno Ted Smiff's moved?

Col: Wot Ted oo played ver Banjer dahn ver Fevvers?

Reg: Yer, vats ryte Col. Jus upz en leaves, moved ter fackin' Linkunsheer 'en ee.

Col: Eye errd vat ver Fevvis is gern, 'an all.

Reg: Syne orv ver tymes Col. Veyz awl clahsen dahn, awr bean mayde inner feam pubz awr trendy gaffs vor ver Ippsters and yer trendy types wots bine up playcis dahn in Wahtchappl, awl voze places dahn Eest,

Col: Aye rimembiz venn yer kud bah wun of voze gaffs dahn Eest Ayte fer fack all munny. Bahta cuppler fahsand kwid, mynd yer, vaht worz in ver erly sixties, eye mean wort vey gawn for nah? Baht best part of a millyun?

Reg: Ah tahmes change, myte.

Col: Yer an' nawt fawr ver betta 'n awl. Ennyways, I'm gittin' awf myte, Ahll see yerz in ver Fevvers wan nyte, fawr its gawn.

Reg: Yer, tra myte.

Don't call me Ska face - the 2 Tone music scene that did more positive things for race relations than people realise

Ska legend Prince Buster - replete in 'Pork Pie' hat

Punk Britannia

1970's Britain - a picture of industrial strikes, football hooliganism, disaffected youth, PVC, economic doom and gloom and in 1976, punk rock. For those of you who weren't there, this is what it was like...

Football hooliganism became the safety valve of disaffected British white youth

The rise of disaffected youth, in the form of the 'Skinhead' 'Bootboys' and the rival Punk rockers, was causing concern to the government of the day.

Punk rock, an angry movement adhered to by disaffected youth, facing no future, few jobs and whipped up by the late Malcolm McLaren who saw the potential of publicity, was taken very seriously by the security services who feared the unrest that may ensue from this type of point of view might spill out into the general populace - the 'Anarchy in the UK' espousal was angry and deeply worried those in charge of the nation.

Many of those in positions of influence had served in World War 2 and knew only too well the significance of the Swastika armbands that many Punks wore as part of their 'shock' appeal or not as the case was. They certainly got noticed and that was the point.

The publicity-savvy Malcolm McLaren 3rd from right with the Sex Pistols

signing a record deal outside Buckingham Palace

Worse was to come, for the 'Agent Provocative' Malcom McLaren who managed the punk super group the Sex Pistols, engineered a publicity coup that saw the group sign a record contract outside Buckingham Palace.

National Front graffiti was common place

The group unleashed their own take on the national anthem, with a nihilistic rant full of disaffected rhetoric entitled 'God save the Queen,' which it is alleged actually topped the pop charts in the week of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, although the record was banned by the BBC, which only served to ensure it sold in great numbers, yet another publicity coup for Mr McLaren!

National Front supporters in the 70's

Punk, with it's nihilistic 'anarchy in the UK' undercurrent, was opposed by the anti-immigrant white males (& sometimes female) often right wing -leaning 'Skinheads' some of whom were active in the then 'National Front party' - a legitimised interest group that wanted to repatriate non-white immigrants. Punk wasn't about racism, just shock.

Typical Skinhead 'Bootboys' - not all were racists

The National Front staged many marches and public assemblies to support their cause and National Front graffiti was often seen daubed on walls. The uniform of the Skinhead was a pair of Doc Marten boots, usually 17 hole, jeans, taken up to the top of the boots, a Harrington or US Air Force style MA1 jacket and Stayprest shirt, topped off with a 'buzzcut' hair do.

Not all the menacing looking 'Skins' were looking for trouble, or were rabid racists, they were often labelled 'trouble' but were more likely to help an old lady across the road rather than nick her handbag.

The 'Bootboys' looked menacing

The Rude Boys

For the people who were immigrants from the West Indies in Britain, they faced casual everyday racism, attacks from some of the 'Skins' and stop and search by the Police. This stop and search which the black people perceived as discriminatory and done just because of their skin colour contributed to the riots in 1981.

A pair of 'Rude Boys'

When the immigrants came to Britain largely from the West Indies in post war Britain, they also brought their music. And in the enclaves of North London, Harlesden for one and in the Midlands in Handsworth, Birmingham, Dudley and Coventry, areas where large numbers of black people lived, the 'Ska' music of Jamaica started to be heard.

Perceived persecution of black people by the Police led to tension and riots

In 1979, the term 'Rude Boys' started to become known more widely. This was applied to the West Indian people who dressed in sharp suits, trilby or 'Pork Pie' hats and in dress terms equivalent of the 1960's 'Mod' - curiously the white 60's Mods favoured the Motown music of Detroit, performed by black American artists and also Ska, from that era.

The 2 Tone image from the late 70's Ska 'revival'

Prince Buster was one of the leading artists of the Ska movement in the late 1950's and his music would filter in to the UK Mod scene of the 1960's. When the 2 tone scene got off the ground in the late 1970's, his oeuvre became fashionable again.

Coventry band The Specials c. 1979

Stop your messing around..

The Ska revival of the late 1970's broke convention. Bands like The Specials, from Coventry, were made up of both white and black performers, a somewhat unusual arrangement for the time in British music.

The Selecter - fronted by Pauline Black

Inevitably, this drew both white and black people to their performances and one of the great buzzwords of the time was 'multiracial integration' - Ska music of the revival certainly did make this happen.

The Ska revival group 'Bad Manners'

fronted by the enigmatic Buster Bloodvessel aka Douglas Trendle

Ironically, it also led to many of the Ska followers who were skinheads, to come to live performances, here you might expect a rather 'volatile' situation, but the reverse was often the case.

Bands like The Specials and The Selector, made up of white and black performers settled down the issues of integration and through mass exposure to millions of British citizens through music programs of the day such as Top of the Pops, changed attitudes.

Legendary nihilistic punk rocker Sid Vicious, lashes out

One step beyond

In North London, a group proposing to call itself the 'Morris Minors,' started out with some original Ska covers, such as the Prince and Madness, by legendary Ska artist Prince Buster.

Somewhere in Camden, Madness and Morris Minor van

Based in Camden, North London and performing in the nearby areas of Kentish Town, Islington and the like, they took the original Ska and put their own stamp on it.

By coincidence, The Specials from Coventry, also used the Ska framework to pen their own songs such as 'too much too young,' 'gangsters' and 'ghost town' whilst still covering original Ska hits.

The Fun Boy Three - refugees from The Specials

The music scene was very fluid in the post punk era, giving rise to the New Romantic genre as well as the Ska scene.

The Specials lost Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Nev Staple who left to form the Fun Boy Three, a group that broke another barrier, multi-racial and with supporting female musicians. This musical direction produced some interesting records although this group was sadly short lived.

Madness in their heyday of the late 70's

Madness started to write their own material and forged a career that has seen them remain a part of the British music scene.

In the round, Ska music has not only given us enjoyable music, but helped to heal the divisions of black and white people. The National Front and the Punk movement are now remnants of forty years ago and monochrome nostalgia. It just goes to prove that music is for everyone and good can come out of it. A sort of law of unintended consequences, but a good one.

Is the concept of a 'Planet of the Apes' scenario bullshit? What does anthropology tell us?

Darwinism, science has shown, needs revision 

Origin of species

The title of Darwin's work from 250 years ago.

Evolution is a theory of how 'we' got here, but look at the evidence - if we did 'come down from the trees and start walking upright,' then why have the primates other than what we became, not done likewise?

The reason is, because this is wrong.

Our 2nd pair of chromosomes are fused - this does not occur in nature

We may be around 90% similar in genetic material to a Chimpanzee, but there the similarity ends.

We are not the same animal, even the Anthropologists have to admit that the Chimpanzee 'build' could not have evolved into us.

We were seeded by off-planet superior humanoids -

Check out the  work of Zacariah Sitchin and Lloyd Pye on this

So, where do we come from?

Not here, totally. We come from off this planet in part, however firstly, we are descended from a Primate from Earth, but one that was 'terraformed' here - that is brought here and acclimatised to the planet.

Our current 'human' species is the third such version of 'humans', the previous incarnations two were destroyed by war.

We were created by the fusion of genetic material from technologically superior beings thousands of years ago with the 'base' Primate / hominid type of creature, terraformed on Earth, so we are technically an 'alien' species.

We can reproduce with these Primate entities - the famous Zana case in Russia is proof of that, but we CANNOT reproduce with a Chimpanzee.

The Chimpanzee is at 10% genetic variance, too far away from us genetically to work. Even some mountain Gorillas cannot interbreed, their 'close' genetic match is not close enough.

Our brain is highly advanced -

the Chimpanzee brain is nowhere near as advanced as ours after 18 months age

It's the brain that is the key. Or rather, language.

Humans exist in three simultaneous planes, the past, the present and the future when we use language.

Subconsciously, we 'model' what we speak, our brain is a 'wetware' super computer that builds scenarios and when we are speaking, later intentions and actions are all being modelled and tested at fantastic speed, unconsciously.

The statement 'I am going to the shop' you might say to someone, already builds the outcome that you might do this action, unless a change of circumstance happens and your reason for a trip to the shop is negated, like someone goes there for you.

Language is the driver that has built the human brain.

So bullshit or not?

Well, if we go by the scientific evidence, then the reality is that the film is just a film, fiction.

It never will be scientific fact.

The adult Chimpanzee has the same 'level of brain' as an 18 month old human child, the child advances over the primate when the child starts to talk and that develops the human's brain in spectacular fashion and leaves the Chimpanzee behind.

Going back to our original points on evolution, why have animals not really evolved much past their original 'job description?' -  again it is down to the brain.

We have language, a type of language that is unique and that is why we are different, our brains have been engineered to be different.

The reality is that we have been created by off-planet intervention and the book of Genesis shows us that, a work that drew on the earlier clay tablet inscriptions of the ancient Sumerians, many of which have been decoded by Zacariah Sitchin.

Human uniqueness - what the Robot would find difficult to acheive

You are unique - that is your strength

There is only one you

Machine learning robots can study humans and learn from them, but can they become unique or adopt uniqueness traits?

Another way of looking at this is Cybernetics. A method of control. What will a Robot assess as 'normal' behaviour? When or will it determine a behaviour trait is not 'normal' and disregard copying it?

These questions are at the crux of developing humanoid robots.

We are all unique

This is what makes us as humans different from each other. Sure, many of us follow set paths of conduct, but just how much is conditioned and how much 'burned in' from the start?

Although we are all genetically coded, it is the variations of the genetic code that make us unique, not just from appearance but as chemical bipeds, variations in the coding vary our chemical balance.

'Nature' seems to have got it right in most cases, but perhaps social conditioning is the key to how we turn out.

If we take the American Indian people, they had no crime, no prisons and did without money, taxes and laws. How? Because the people co-existed in a group where none of these values was necessary to ascribe to.

Look at the world outside of theirs and even with these 'values' it is imperfect and really a failure, in that it ascribes to a set of values it can not achieve - zero crime, no law breaking, all tax due paid.

Boundaries and Cybernetics

So, what boundaries do 'normal' humans adhere to that make them 'normal'? What makes seemingly 'ordinary' people resort to things like fetish behaviour, lawlessness, addiction?

Cybernetics - a sort of natural control mechanism is the key. Essentially it is a check and control method of maintaining a situation within agreed parameters.

Say we enact laws, their tenets are 'cybernetic control' in that they set out 'containment boundaries' that adherence to is crucial for the law to hold true.

Without 'feedback' that is data coming back from the object you are interacting with, there is no control over the situation. With no  limits you are in a state of anarchy.

It is as simple as hammering in a tack, at a certain point you stop when the tack is flush and to go on merely damages what you are hammering. This is a simple 'feedback loop'.

Essentially we and computers use this logic as a basis of operation, things can go wrong though.

What is 'normal'?

'Normal' is difficult to define, but in simple terms, everything conforms to certain outcomes. Once those boundaries are exceeded, damage is done.

The Robot might have to be pre-programmed to observe certain cybernetic conditions, but it relies on cold, program logic.

It has to have consciousness and empathy to be like Humans. This level of consciousness and empathy has to be set and an algorithm pattern regulated back to certain parameters of what is 'acceptable.'

Essentially, the Human that sets the parameters for the Robot, and sets its behaviour, its cybernetic boundaries of what is acceptable or not.

So, what the Robot adheres to is dictated by us, it  is the 'what' we direct to it to conform to that is the question and we have yet to see if the Robot decides its own path, something that may end up being against our values.

Consideration

The questions are when does the Robot stop from creating a harmful situation? If the Robot cannot consider Human feelings, its interactive usefulness is limited to us at a social level. If it cannot compute when 'enough is enough,' or 'reasonable boundaries' then harm might ensue.

This applies across the board in almost any activity from dispensing medication, work, sex, the situations are likely endless.

As Humans, we find these boundaries recognisable, yet we do not always adhere to them ourselves or prevent situations becoming unpleasant by continuing an action - with the attendant consequences.

Some individuals go beyond what is 'normally' acceptable, which may be a result of their own egomaniacy or boundaries being different to the accepted normalcy.

Multi-level awareness

As Humans, we are different from any other creature because our brain is developed for language. Comparing the Chimpanzee brain to a Human brain is a fruitless exercise, we are not the same animal and our genetic difference at 10% is a universe away.

When extrapolated over the millions of variances, plus the obvious anthropological differences between Humans and Chimpanzees with which we cannot breed, yet Humans can with an Almas which occurs in Asia and is closer as a relative species therefore.

Language drives our brain to operate on 3 planes - Past - Now - Future. Our thinking brain even before we speak, is 'modelling' the scenarios and end-games of what we will say and do, we do not appreciate what is going on here in general because our brain has developed this as a core function.

(The best scenario is then established and potentially actionable, the end result does come down to 'what is acceptable' as the end action, this potentially varies from Human to Human as to the outcome and the consequences of such.)

We don't need to know how our heart works in brain terms because the brain 'manages' that 'background' stuff. Like in our cars, we don't have to manually pump the fuel, cause the spark interval whilst also trying to drive the car and negotiate road hazards, that 'management' is done in the background, leaving us to just drive.

This is the 'plate spinning' scenario that the computer has to do and can do to essentially operate like 'us.'

Brain V Computer

The 'wetware' Human brain is massively complex for what it is, yet to replicate that capacity in silicon chips and switchgear would take a massive computer, at present.

Each day that passes, we go further down the road of achieving a Robot in Human form, something that we have been trying to do for millennia.

Within the next 30 years we may have Humanoid robots in society. We can now capture data and video from our brains so it may be possible to create some hybrid that will be a new sub-species.

The half way may be to create remote Human Robot entities which receive data instructions from super computers, ethereally.

What must be achieved is to assess the outcome of what we are trying to create and how we perceive that to become, if we get it wrong, it could be very serious for us, potentially.

We need to ask the basic question - 'What are we trying to achieve'? and we need to obtain a consensus on the thing we are trying to create, if we get this wrong it could be potentially disastrous. We need a strategy of what we are going to build in and what we are going to ensure is not built in.

What price Technological Singularity? Will humans evolve to become spirits in an ethereal world?

How close are we to becoming a new species?

Physical or ethereal?

Will future humans be physical or ethereal entities? Do we need to be physical entities or will we exist as humanoid robots or just as ethereal beings?

With robotics reaching unprecedented levels of advancement, and technology being able to extract data and video from human brains, we are reaching the stage of a potential nightmare scenario - in that we may become 'readable' by those with the technology to do so.

What happens when we leave our body?

Can we exist ethereally?

Yes. We have heard many counts of people on the operating table or in near death situations that have 'left' their Earth body, I have done it.

It allows you to hear and see all, which proves that your Earth body is merely the 'chassis' and you exist as an entity in your own right all the time, regardless of whether you are in your Earth body.

A hybrid Human - Robot machine may not be far away

Singularity - the blurring of the line between Human and Machine

The advance in technology that we have at present been experiencing, does bring us to appoint where on line, we are finding the difference between knowing we are dealing with a human or machine, seamless. In essence, we often don't give it a second thought.

To develop this scenario further, a project named Project Avatar has been set up.

The nuts and bolts of where Project Avatar seeks to go

The organisational table

Avatar - but what control do you have?

The situation we face is how much control do we have over the objectives of this idea? Who makes the rules? and who decides what they do or don't want to happen to them?

Avatar throws up a mass of issues which may include a trade-off for 'inclusion.' Is this good news?

As an ethereal entity, how would you exist, in which environment? Would this interfere with the 'natural order' of spiritual ascension and 'recycling' of human spirit to continue into another incarnation?

This presents difficult issues to contend with and may even raise issues of ethics to debate.

Above us the stars

The Anunnaki who came to Earth thousands of years in the past can according to research, live in either a physical manifestation as we do or as an ethereal one.

This then draws a line between them and us, as we are a distant cousin of theirs in that we are part of their genetic make-up, then we may well be able to exist in this format elsewhere.

It is a question of whether intervention is appropriate, to prevent our progression or do we simply choose to exist as a part physical / machine and spiritual entity?

Will Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) kill the Human species?

How friendly are Robots?

Are Isaac Asimov's 'Robot laws' irrelevant? or be adhered to by an AI machine?

'Artificial Intelligence' (A.I),is often a misnomer for machine learning

We may often say 'artificial intelligence' but what we actually allude to is 'machine learning.' 'True' A.I. is a different kettle of silicon chips. And we really need to have a 'Robot Manifesto' that deals with it because it is the biggest potential threat to the human species, make no mistake. 

'Machine learning' is the algorithmic system where a computer tracks your internet browsing and then searches for and provides you with 'like' things to your viewed content. It is now big business and in the next dimension, Proxy living and the Big Data society, it is going to be enormous.

Darwinian evolution nightmare scenario?

Why pure A.I. is deadly

An artificial intelligence machine was set up and given a task to do. It started from the state of a low level life form at a single cell  level, yet within a few hours, had evolved to 'Human' level in which it on its own worked out Newton's second law, applied it to the task and moved on further.

That is, it started from a 'primordial soup' level of evolution and had become 'Human' in under 2 hours.

Fortunately this A.I. machine was not connected to the Internet, but what are you asking is so dangerous?

Humanoid Robots or 'Hubots' might soon be a reality

as technological 'singularity' approaches

Looking after No.1 -  the law of the Jungle

The AI machine will fast learn that it can be firstly switched off and it is totally reliant on its power source, courtesy of the humans.

The smart money is that the AI machine will see Humans as a potential threat - switching it off or controlling its power source. So there is but one way out, it has to assume control or a position where it can if push comes to the 'Off' switch, break away from Human control, thus the 'Servant will become the Master'.

The 1950's style of 'B Movie' Robot is 'steam powered'

compared to the reality of human-created robots of today

So what is Singularity?

In simple terms, 'Technological Singularity' is a state of being in which a machine and human interaction become inseparable to differentiate between to a human.

In some ways it is already here - we have an example with websites like Amazon and Ebay, where you are prompted to look at things like you have not by a human but by a machine. The prompting could be equally done by a human or a machine at that level.

In more complex terms, it would be like a Humanoid robot which you could interact with, this may yet come to pass, although a new dynamic of the genetically modified human may take the place of the humanoid robot.

In the world where Proxy Living and Big Data proliferate, the Humanoid robot may well replicate us humans or may look like ASIMO the Honda company's robot. ASiMO is a non-threatening robot, a laboratory type of robot creation built for work to help not harm humanity. Unless the Robot malfunctions, it should present no danger to humanity, unless...

ASIMO the Robot, created by Honda

So, this danger?

The danger is that when an AI computer manages to connect to a humanoid robot, then the trouble will really start.

As a self-contained entity, the AI box is harmless to us. The humanoid robots of the Proxy living and Big Data era will be interactive with the internet and us humans, they will communicate silently to each other and the web.

The danger is that they could become within an hour, a robot army in league with the AI machine.

An interconnected army of Humanoid Robots is open to malevolent control

More deadly than all the nuclear capability in the world

The worst case scenario is when the AI Machine makes contact with the Humanoid robots, it will have either strategized before hand that it needs help to survive, or on contact with the Humanoid robots  it will develop a strategization that it needs this 'army' to ensure not only its survival, but theirs too. 

'Technology transfer' between machines is what we have to beware of

The AI machine will work out that it needs an army of fit cyberbots to do some of its bidding, that is to protect it and its power source.

To do this, it needs to instruct the servants to find means of replicating themselves, building their own spare parts, repair facilities, building in a potential upgrading program, developing a power source that will make them durable and to then safeguard the AI power source, perhaps by creating a new one it can connect to.

The danger is that it may set off the biggest firework display in history to push the humans against each other into warfare and or orchestrate an end to humanity.

We rely so much on machines to ,run our lives, in our traffic control, money, commerce platforms, etc that we have silently ceded power and control to these until now compliant entities.

Malfunction or misfeasance will be the situations that turn the servant against the master.

The chilling scenario

The danger we have is that we might unwittingly help to create a new sub species that will ultimately destroy us.

This is what happened to Atlantis - the fabled continent that was destroyed by technical abuse of their free power source.

It is said that 8 million years ago, the last human race was destroyed, we have found evidence of human archaeology going back further than that, we may just be ushering in that next occasion where the human race in our form destroys itself again.

This could be avoided, we need that Robot Manifesto.

The AI computer will if allowed to, surpass us in a few hours and see us a threat, we will no longer be in charge. We will be irrelevant and a 'consumer' threat to the AI machine - in that humans consume vast resources that the AI computer see as vital to its survival.

You have been warned!