We need to be talking about universal truths.

We now live in a world where superior intelligence is an all-encompassing reality.

Neuroscience indicates there are no shortcuts to how the human brain functions.

We need to talk about universal truths. One such truth, from a psychological perspective, is that if a problem is ignored or denied, it will continue to be a problem. Issues, problems, and concerns need to be the cobblestones that build the road of knowledge and construction rather than self-destruction.

Today, we live in a world where artificial intelligence is all-encompassing. Because of what artificial intelligence is achieving, it has been referred to as “super intelligence.” However, given what AI (without human intervention) is achieving independently, which surpasses what humans are realizing, a more universally accurate descriptor for AI now may need to be that of “superior intelligence.”

Superior Intelligence Rules

Empirical evidence suggests that superior intelligence (SI) is already a significant, dominant, and even intrusive force across many organizational operations.

The present empirical internet indicators suggest that humanity is now on the cusp of not only losing the capacity to control its current organizational, social, and internet circumstances, but it also seems to be at the early stages of also losing control of its immediate internet-based structural and social future.

This civilizational dilemma is inseparable from the developmental foundations of human agency. If SI shapes childhood environments through device immersion, it will, as the neuroscience already informs, reshape the very neurological and social conditions required for human autonomy, personal and social responsibility, and rational choice to take place.

The Universal Dilemma of Machine Domination

Neuroscience indicates there are no shortcuts to how the human brain functions, which gives rise to consciousness, the mind, cognition, and free will.

As Claxton (2015) points out, the body and brain “is designed to blend all” internal and external “influences together” into one seamless operating entity for the purpose of achieving holistic efficiencies and operational excellence.

As such, it is important to note here that the emergence of consciousness is what helped to develop, advance, and enhance cognition, motor learning, self-reflective intellectual insights, skills, knowledge, critical thinking, and higher-order reasoning, which eventually created the physical world in which we now live. And in relation to what is now taking place, this now includes the intrusive, independently dominant, superior machine-based reality of superior intelligence.

To universally deal with this, we need to make sure that our education system is operating in a manner that advances........

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