Dan Elvey, an Australian contact activist, has been posting on the CE5 Perth FB page an online course using prompts to AI. The remarkable results are Deep Dive explanatory materials plus practice exercises for his contact team.
Deep Dive 20 The Human Condition: Would We Still Be “Us” After Contact?
Over the past two months, we have explored how contact would shake the external pillars of our world. Our geopolitics define our tribe. Our religions define our soul. Our economies define our worth. Our art defines our expression.
This week, we go to the very center of it all. We are not just asking what happens to our systems, but what happens to us. If a non-human intelligence is confirmed, would we still be “human”?
This forces us to ask a profound philosophical question: What is the “human condition”? Is it a fixed, biological reality, or is it simply a product of our current, isolated context?
Let’s explore the core definitions of our identity that would be challenged.
- Our Biology and Emotion: We are Homo sapiens. But is that all? We are also a messy, powerful, and often contradictory mix of logic and emotion. We feel love, rage, jealousy, and profound compassion, often at the same time. What if we meet a being that is purely logical? Or a species that experiences emotions we cannot even categorize? Is “human” defined by this specific, volatile blend of feeling and thought?
- The Individual “Self”: Our entire Western society is built upon the “I”. My thoughts, my rights, my property, my privacy. What if we encounter a species that is a telepathic “we”? A collective consciousness where thoughts are shared, and the “self” is secondary to the group? How does our concept of individuality, and even privacy, survive that new context?
- Purpose Forged in Struggle: So much of our identity, and our greatest stories, are forged in struggle. We overcome adversity, we compete for resources, we define ourselves by the challenges we face. What happens if we meet a species that has solved scarcity, solved conflict, solved disease? What is a “human” without a problem to solve? Our purpose would be forced to evolve, shifting entirely from survival to expression.
- Our Finite Mortality: We are, above all, defined by our finite lifespan. We know we will die. This knowledge shapes everything: our art, our desire for legacy, our religions, our urgency. What if we meet a civilization that has conquered ageing, or is post-biological and effectively immortal? How would our art, our ambitions, and even our love for each other change if the clock was no longer ticking?
This is not a fearful question. It is an evolutionary one. Contact would not erase our identity. It would act as a great cosmic mirror, forcing us, for the first time, to look at ourselves and consciously decide what “human” truly means.
It would be the ultimate invitation: to grow beyond an identity defined by limitation and to forge one defined by consciousness.
What part of the “human” identity do you think would be the most challenged?
Another Deep Dive posting by Dan Elvey.
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