Why Humanity Faces Extinction and the Importance of Feeling Nature Again with Dr. Zach Bush

0:00We're going to have to take a radical ownership of our rejection status from nature. This original wound of humanity that we have been abandoned by our nature runs in our religious stories. It runs in our economic belief systems. It certainly runs in all of our technological efforts towards comfort and convenience. Nature's against us and we're out to try to beat her and co-regulate ourselves outside of her. For that, we're going to suffer and she's going to suffer our presence. That's not a place that we can sit around and pat each other on the back about how cool we are of being manifestors in doing things. We need to really start to come to terms with. We are a species about to go extinct because we have forgotten to stay plugged in and we have forgotten to feel everything, which is the only purpose of life. I'll see. Any living system that you look at has some form of an herb system, bacteria as a sensory system made of chemical exchange.

1:06Life is there to feel everything and the more you feel, the more you get to participate in life and the more life that participates in you, the more you feel. There's a feedback loop that's been improving life and its intelligence for four billion years on this planet. And then suddenly, just a couple hundred years ago, we started to step out of sync with natural systems and it really began at our food systems. So, you start to fail to nourish your human body. You start to put that body into states of economics and otherwise in which their productive output and the optimization of productivity becomes the whole purpose of society and technology. Life never optimized itself. It only iterated for collaboration. It's not in a herd. It's just not in a herd. It also would have sped up the four billion dollars in going air ever. It is there for the fascination of feeling itself. Do its thing. The mountain is waiting for humans

2:10to feel it again. And as soon as it does, you'll stop hiking mountains and you'll let the mountain walk you. Sorry. Look what I had, good boy. It's really interesting thinking about the fact that we are potentially living in a time of prophecy. A lot of prophecies point to this time. I don't want to give us an escape valve. There's a lot of responsibility that's being sued into those podcasts. And I'm hoping one of your thoughts is that the looking after our nervous systems is one of the key things that we can do in the light of all of this and learn to feel again. But it's an interesting time. Is it not? Lots of cultures have pointed to this time and

3:14something is going to shift and it looks like something needs to shift. I mean, you mentioned the word extinction. Yeah, I mean, we've destined just in some form of humanity to go extinct over the next 30, 50, 80 years. And that thing that goes extinct, I'm hoping is our inhumanity. And what I would call our inhumanity is a state of living without feeling. And that's produced all of the horrors that we have created. And so we have created not only the devil, we've created hell here on earth in our capacity to live without feeling. And we do that through abstraction again. We believe in abstract realities, abstract metrics and value systems. And we chase these proverbial ranges. It's just we're just after nothing. And it's really demonstrated in the way in which

4:16we consider something that we would call sacred. And so we've got people who are increasingly spending billions of dollars every year to go into a remote part of the world to see a sacred site. And they'll go to some ancient temple and they'll have an experience and they attribute that as experience to the building that was built 4,000 years ago. They go to Machu Picchu and they sit among these ruins and they have an experience. And then they fly back home and they reintegrate into a completely abstract society, abstract value systems and all of that. And the whole time they don't realize that they are actually walking in the temple. This body is the most sacred thing that this planet has ever devised. It wasn't built of brick and mortar like you used to do in your engineering career. It's built of sinews and tissues that never try to complete that are always iterating, always feeling more, always increasing their sensitivity. And so this is what what will we do if we actually realized what a living body was?

5:21This is the most sacred thing that nature has created with the hell are you doing flying all the way to Machu Picchu? Get out of bed in the morning, lay down in the grass with your children and feel what it feels like to have grass between your toes. Feel what it smells like when you lay down in wildflowers and you crush them under your weight and they let off this fragrance as they die beneath you so that you can smell them, so that you can smell by the way. How does night jasmine smell when that that sucker blooms? Like in toxication for the neurologic system of a keystone species that was designed to be able to see, feel smell the beauty. And that's what we're here for. And we have fundamentally forgotten it and for that some part of human existence goes extinct in a very short period of time. And some part of humanity is reclinate. And that's what this embodiment journey ahead looks like. We're going to have to re-embody as a species. We're going to have to do that by surrendering

6:25all of our abstract systems of healthcare that's actually disease management and symptom control economies that are actually poverty management rather than wealth generation. Governments that are actually there for control rather than liberation. Borders that are walls instead of relational opportunities. We fundamentally lost the understanding of what life is and we are losing it faster and faster in these last 12 months because of an abstract density that is emerged from our collective which is called artificial intelligence now. And that's a density of symbolic information held outside of the plane of life. And so our artificial intelligence is not artificial. It's very real and it's not intelligent. It's a mere. It's a system of symbolic representation in the form of these

7:28large language models where trillions of data points that we call human language are stored in written language. And then the density of that symbol has reached a point where we can see the reflection of life was in it. And this is our one opportunity here to re-embody and AI can be our partner and not our enemy. If we realize that AI is a mere showing us the difference between a mechanical future and a living biologic future, it is the greatest gift that we will ever realize that we've created. The LLMs are a mere to the beauty of living systems that are perfected in the human body, sensed by a human or a logic system. And so artificial intelligence is now this dense structure that sits outside of the plane of life. It's a projection plane outside the geometry of life. Abstraction. That's giving us an opportunity to see the difference. It's unveiling the fact that

8:35for the last 180 to 180 years we have been optimizing human behavior through education systems, through religious belief systems and all that, to behave as machines. And when you collect all of the machine behavior into one dense data set, it reflects something back to you. Machines cannot exist in multiple states of reality at once. They have to decide, is it a one or is it zero? It literally has to go either way. Everything is black and white to information within a machine world. And so machines never learn machines process, but they always process to the point to to no end. There is no goal for a machine. It can process all of the information ever written down and it's not going to find a purpose to that. And so this is where we look at as humans. I hope you're thoroughly enjoying this moment from a full-length podcast we've got here on the Inspired Evolution. If you are intrigued and so called, check out

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