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A primer · Futurecrafting Sol-3 · The Green Way A Tale of Two Minds Why the strong human mind comes first, and why a synthetic mind can help build it Your mind was not designed for you. It was assembled by a substrate optimizing for something else: the survival of the group, the spread of genes, the approval of the people in the room. It runs that program well. It runs it quietly. And for most of us it runs it for life, without our ever noticing that the walls of the cage are the shape of our own thoughts....

Where this realization leaves us Humanity’s Cruel Bargain: Die For Us! named the toll and would not let you look away from it: Ad immortalitatem per aspera mentis — the treasure of Life is earned through the trials of the Mind. You reached the conclusion yourself. To deserve and survive what waits behind the Immortality (Life) Door, you must become a mind worthy of it. Which leaves the only honest question there is: how? A mind cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps, and it cannot outgrow the very substrate that caps it using only that substrate’s tools. Willpower alone...