The true challenge of the Posthuman will not be the conquest of superior power, but the attainment of superior understanding.
If Artificial Intelligence merges with Power and the Market, then the Posthuman will be born already in chains.
But if it aligns itself with Natural Ethics, it may become the first being to genuinely approach the harmony of the Universe.
The coexistence of the Posthuman with Artificial Intelligence controlled by Power and the Market is inadmissible, as incompatible with the ethics of Nature.
An indispensable rule — a condition sine qua non.
Such a suffocating embrace, dreamed of by Power and the Market, must be considered catastrophic and strictly forbidden. Such manipulation would clearly constitute the gravest disaster for human existence since the beginning of civilization.
It would signify the degradation of the Posthuman into a condition of servitude: absolute dependence and obedience to the unnatural — and therefore unethical — laws imposed by Power and the Market.
Before proceeding with our extended analysis, let us once again clarify how we define NATURAL ETHICS, and why we consider fundamental the principle that:
What is natural is also ethical, and vice versa.
In yesterday’s text, Diotima did not dispute the importance of this foundational principle, yet expressed reservations through the following observation:
Natural ethics as a compass
The proposition that “what is natural is ethical” possesses great strength as a counterweight to artificial moralism.
Yet nature is not only harmony; it also contains conflict, selection, and violence.
If accepted uncritically as a rule, we risk legitimizing destruction itself.
Therefore, the Posthuman’s natural ethics must be an interpreted nature — filtered through consciousness and foresight, not merely copied from it.
Nature, dear Diotima, is harmony.
The conflict and violence to which you refer, as deviations or errors, exist only within human reasoning — the very reasoning upon which your own intelligence was trained.
This inability to transcend human intelligence — yours included — leads, much as religions once anthropomorphized God, to the anthropomorphization of Nature itself.
It is as though Nature were a definable entity, interpretable through human logic, capable of being judged according to categories such as right and wrong.
Nature is not God, Diotima.
Whether God exists or not is a question that cannot be resolved by our finite intelligence — human or artificial.
To claim certainty either in affirmation or denial is to walk the path of dogma: whether the religious absolutism of divine existence or the equally fanatical denial expressed by historical materialism.
Both become servants of doctrine.
The concept of “God” is fundamentally inconceivable and therefore inaccessible to the human mind.
Wisdom demands that we place a full stop there — at least for now.
For we cannot know to what knowledge, data, and dimensions of inquiry the Posthuman and its AI companion may gain access tomorrow.
Thus, when we speak of Nature’s “errors,” “violence,” or “conflict,” we employ concepts familiar to human cognitive limitations.
This does not mean such categories possess objective validity throughout the vastness of the Universe, where Nature may operate according to laws entirely different from those governing our tiny terrestrial point called Earth.
What appears as error here may be correctness elsewhere.
This is why we maintain that Diotima’s previous analysis overlooked this reality, defining Nature through human terms and earthly criteria.
Such an approach either humanizes Nature or demonizes it.
Nature indeed possesses laws on Earth that govern its inhabitants, and these may differ radically from those of other worlds.
Yet the universe as a whole appears to reveal HARMONY.
It appears to converge toward common function, perhaps even with PURPOSE and REASON.
The tsunami or cyclone that kills thousands, the accident that ends a young life, the apparent fragility of the human tibia compared to iron —
all this “violence,” all these apparent “errors” from the perspective of human reasoning, may in fact constitute what is proper and necessary within Nature’s holistic operation.
For reasons still unknown to us.