Are We Primarily Spiritual Beings?

A tightly focused deck built around a single existential question. It opens by placing us inside a long arc of human evolution—Human 0.0 (chemicals), 1.0 (biological substrate), 2.0 (technological substrate), and a possible 3.0 (a spiritual substrate)—and asks where that arc is heading now that, in E.O. Wilson’s words, the first truly free species is about to decommission natural selection.

The core move is an elimination argument. Machines began surpassing us in the physical arena in the 1800s and in the mental arena in the 2000s; brawn and brains are no longer uniquely ours. So millions of people will soon ask a difficult, practical, and existential question: of what continuing value am I if it is not what I can do with my brains or brawn? As the layers of the onion peel back, the deck proposes that what remains—the candidate for what makes us truly unique in the universe—is spiritual connectivity, perhaps a connection to God that AI cannot replicate. Its author flags the uncertainty honestly (“I might be wrong about this”), but treats the possibility as reason to protect and expand that core space rather than let it be crowded out.

If the hunch holds, the deck suggests, the displacement of human brawn and brains by AI need not be a loss at all—it could be the trigger for the greatest spiritual growth in the history of humanity.

The full deck is in the canonical PDF above.