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As we move from biological evolution to enhancement by artificial intelligence we are going to need a cosmic perspective.

This will be the first steps to leaving earth to colonise space, but for us to be ably to grasp both the small and big, while embracing our kinship with all life on earth, is a longways off.

As cosmic truths lie undiscovered before our eyes such a perspective value is yet to be discovered.

With discoveries transforming life on Earth Artificial intelligence is no longer artificial.

We owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore space.

During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore – in part because it’s fun to do. But there’s a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their ‘low contracted prejudices.’ And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment – until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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