34764 wiping out all the animals as well as many -

OF THE VILLAGERS!
NO PRIEST, SHAMAN OR GOD COULD HAVE PREVENTED IT?
But once modern science deciphered the secrets of epidemics, pathogens & antibiotics,
industrial coops, pens & pigsties became feasible... With the help of vaccinations, medications,
hormones, pesticides, central air-conditioning systems & automatic feeders, it is now possible
to pack tens of thousands of pigs, cows or chickens into neat rows of cramped cages, and produce
meat, milk & eggs with unprecedented efficiency.
In recent years, as people began to rethink human-animal relations, such practices have come under
increasing criticism. We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life
forms, perhaps because we are about to become one?! If and when computer programs attain super-
human intelligence & unprecedented power, should we begin valuing these programs more than we
value humans? Would it be okay, for example, for an artificial intelligence to exploit humans and even
kìll them to further its own needs & desires? If it should never be allowed to do that, despite its superior
intelligence & power, why is it ethical for humans to exploit & kill pigs? Do humans have some magical
spark, in addition to higher intelligence & greater AI {KI} could never acquire it? If there is no such spark,
would there be any reason to continue assigning special value to human life even after computers surpass
humans in intelligence and power? Indeed, what exactly is it about humans that make us so intelligent and
powerful in the first place, and how likely is it that non-human entities will ever rival and surpass us? These
next days will examine the nature & power of Homo sapiens, not only in order to comprehend further our relations with other animals, but also to appreciate what the future might hold for us, & what relations between humans and so-called superhumans might look like.

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