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By Muhammad Natsir
Tahar
According to brain scientist, our
primitive ancestors only used the basic functions of their brain such as
aggression, growing child, fear, sex, and the willingness to follow the leaders
without thinking. Though the human brain is a miracle.
If stated in bits, information in
the human brain is equivalent to 20 million of books, equal to the number of
books at the biggest libraries in the world. In the phase of cognitive
revolution, the human brain conducts higher functions, reading, writing and speaking.
Charles Sherrington imagined while
human brain was running, our large brain cortex would resemble glittering
swords made up of twinkling dots rhythmically with a series of fireballs moving
to and fro. It is as if the Milky Way Galaxy is include in a cosmic dance. The
cortex soon became a magical loom where millions of twinkles spun.
Likewise, when we fall asleep, the
brain remains throbbing, with the complex matter of life, dream and problem
solving there in hundreds of electrochemistry impulses. Carl Sagan said, there
are much bigger of valleys in the mountains of reason, and curves.
Neurochemistry is super bussy, more owesome rather than any human-made circuit.
Our brain developes an elegant
architecture of consciousness. Our consciousness is the initial point of our
cosmic journey. It is differentiator of our species and the place of our
humanity. Until recently, it was surprisingly when for example the world
futurologist, Ian Person predicted that human consciousness would able to be
copied into external memory.
Through his writings exposed on July 15, 2018 entitled When
Your Electronically Immortal, Will You Still Own Your Own Mind?, Person
explains how human consciousness can be connected with external
technology. Until other futurulogists imagine, one day humans can witness their
own burial with new body.
Science and technology have the
basic nature to finish off the history of religion and dogma. Here we need to
hold on to the mind consciousness to hamper technological impudence that
continually tries to tamper with our transcendental domain.
Initially because they were tired
of thingking and remembering, humans started to place memories outside
themselves. We are the only species in the world that stores memories out of
the brain and genes. We put it on the stone inscriptions, on tree bark and
animals, on paphyrus paper, clay tablets, and the end a pile of books in a
library whose storage space is always smaller than our brain’s capacity.
Laying this memory we are familier
with the term writing. The discovery of writing and writing work is a constellation
of the cosmos connecting time, breaking the shackles of time lines and each
zone is put together randomly.
Since the beginning of 2000
millennium we have jumped into the digital age in unlimited connectivity. The
virtual realm is our world this century. The world when printed books compete
with digital books that are able to break the mileage. Nevertheless the printed
books remain as the majesty of civilization of reason, like Europe which still
maintains the old buildings of the Victorian and Tudor era.
The question is whether the
millennial perspective will remain the same. They were at the last relay of
wonder in this century, a revolution that skyrocketed in a matter of
days. Physical matters began to be abandoned, they stayed longer in
cyberspace.
Laying memory into other mediums
such as books, and now a vast digital library has been completed. One more
thing, we are not only put it down, but let the thought process be outside the
brain. Say, the first absolete technology that we know is calculator.
Now we quickly recognize Artificial
Intelegence (AI), otomation and robotics. They complete work far better and
faster rather than humans. The threat will come from AI, they are able to think
like human brains, and are able to call memory at lighting speed. We
increasingly left behind, if then the next capitalism ignores humanism.
The only thing AI lacks right now
is awareness. It is a shining sword of us, our cosmic dance, and our elegant
history of humanity. Consciousness is God’s gift that we must pay attention to
in order to maintain our existence on earth. Of course, with the assistance of
faith. ~MNT
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