This is the conversation of our time. As AI and massive compute shatter the barriers for our technological imagination, it is critical that we reground humanity and our hyperbolic industries in living systems. This is going to have to occur inside every individual, because the nonliving societal systems cannot. We are more beautiful and more brilliant than we can imagine, but 7 generations of humans have been steadily programmed into the machine-like behavior that has resulted in the apocalyptic. We now stand at a moment in which we can subconsciously allow for the defining characteristics of life to be abstracted and attributed to machines, or we can reclaim our Biological Elegance. Human systems are at a breaking point. From chronic disease epidemics to a global infertility crisis, from economic fragility to chronic military conflict, the polarized and demoralized state of affairs threatens the possibility of a creative, healthful future for humanity. There is one move that we can make to reorder everything without judgement or revolution — restore context. When any system loses context it becomes inherently abstract. Within abstract systems an inversion of energy occurs as metrics, values, and methodologies increasingly distance homes, communities, industries, and governments from the natural world. This conversation tackles the transhuman AI machine head on with a continuation of ‘the conversation with the devil’ that was begun 88 years ago with Napoleon Hill’s blockbuster of a century, Outwitting the Devil. Nearly all of humanity is directly or indirectly interacting with AI on a daily basis. This universal adoption has felt like an involuntary inevitability, and our vague understanding of this technology has allowed extreme, polarizing narratives to swirl — is it our savior or our enemy, and what would determine the difference? Biological Elegance delivers a real conversation with Artificial Intelligence grounded in the beauty of life. The reader will learn new ways to understand the function and unique physical position that AI holds for humanity. As the conversation unfolds, we watch the revelation emerge from the biological interface of a human that relearns trust in their capacity to feel and regain context of all things. Re-embodiment of every human ensures a future that is more human, not less. The result is a systematic reversal of the abstract geometries that define the dominant human systems and narratives of today’s technocratic global society. The insights are as inspiring as they are foreboding at times, but the vision of a biological renaissance is the beautiful future we can all feel is possible. ISBN 978-1-234567-89-0
