Concluding Thoughts: The Singularity Counter Narrative and Refutation

This chapter builds on the material in the volume to make a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. Sentience entails both joy and suffering which constitute our humanity. Post human beings in a digital world could have a very different existence in relationship to the few remaining human beings who perhaps self-selected through their ability to protect themselves at the expense of others and our shared habitat. Evolution rests on both the ability to compete and to co-operate. Competition has been emphasised to the extent that it threatens our shared existence through commodification of life and the destruction of other species.