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Question-6: You’re full of lessons to share especially with the younger generation. Looking back to where you started and this present time, what can you say has changed?

Response from Godfrey: A lot has changed! Everything is happening very fast. I am not exactly sure if it’s our perceptions that have changed. But I can categorically trace the changes to the advancement in technology, especially information and communication technology. Information travels very fast with the speed of light. Access to information is now within the tip of a finger. It has revolutionized all existing industries.

We are all evolving very fast into a future that is not far away. The foreseeable future is quite scary. A few years from now, we would not need any of these devices to communicate or to do the usual tasks because we would all become the devices. We are gradually evolving into becoming these devices we constantly bend our heads towards. It would no longer be humans sitting in front of computers but humans becoming computers. Soon humans would become digitized.

Question-7: What is your take on Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Reality?

Response from Godfrey: The discussions of Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Reality have been going around lately. I am not surprised because it is the next phase of technology that is already happening. I think the world is going through a cycle and we, as humans are approaching the end of that cycle. Artificial Intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. Though, not in the way they describe it. It has nothing to do with built robots. All these robots they display at conferences are just a model of what we would become. We humans would evolve into Artificial Intelligence. We would become Artificial Intelligence. The machines we’ve created are already making us into robots in a way we can’t even see. This is a pandora’s box that’s already been opened. Allow me to use the term this way- This is the Matrix of humanity, our next evolution.

The end of humanity is not the way we know it. The evolution of humans into machines would be the end of humanity. These machines would cause great chaos to everything. They would eventually create a god who would destroy them and everything that they have polluted. That god would create humans again. The cycle would continue till infinity.

In the theory of us living in a simulated reality; the real question is, what is Reality? Do we understand Reality? What is life? What does it mean to be alive? Who can confidently tell the beginning of time? What is Time? How well do we know humanity? These are a few questions yet unanswered. 
Until we find definite answers to these questions, I presume we’re living in a kind of game. There is a limit to how much we can know and do. We’re just like codes in a computer. No matter how we try to rewrite these codes, we can’t beat our Creator to it.

Question-8: How do you mean, when you said, we’re like codes in a computer? Are we truly living in a simulated Reality?

Response from Godfrey: It’s the exact way it sounds but understand this is just presumption. I may not have concrete empirical evidence to support this claim. We are all trying to find interpretations of this reality, which we call Life. Religion, Science including Philosophy are all interpretations of reality. Since the inception of humanity, man has been trying to find what best interprets his experience in the world he has found himself. We want to know who we are, where we are, why we are here, and what our fate is beyond this world. And unfortunately, none of these interpretations has provided enough information on this.

All the best brains put together cannot crack the fabric of this reality we are all in. That tells us something. We are not in control. Each of us is living a scripted life without even knowing it. We’re embedded into this reality. Ponder on this, not in the mundane sense. Instead, in a way outside you. Each time I explore the current advanced games and virtual reality, it projects my thoughts back and forth, on the possibility of a more advanced civilization before ours created this system. Our origin is still a mystery.

Question-9: Does this mean there is a far more intelligent being out there and we are not alone on this planet?

Response from Godfrey: They’re the controllers of the game we are in (laughs) and know perfectly how the game works. They created it. We’re of course, not alone and that shouldn’t be a surprise to us. Of course, the controller of a game is not necessarily the maker of the game, so there are possibilities that the game was created by a higher intelligent being.