No soul passes the threshold of death,
The childhood God has been vanquished.
With my last breath, I will cease to exist
and memories of me will fade,
Drifting away like debris on the ocean.
I won’t know, because there’ll be no more me.
But for now, in this AI age,
as my human brain atrophies
And DeepMind and ChatGPT take over
as fewer humans are needed in the machinery
of the economy
and Elon Musk has his way
Firing expendable humans left and right
Dictators rise to crush democracy
Human worth becomes less
The soul has no home beyond this realm
Or there is no soul, only the brain
Trained, wired, damaged from birth
Aging, forgetting, drifting toward dementia.
Why believe, what to believe?
Life has never been better, sociologists say
More diseases treated, education better?
Fewer wars – really?
Longer lives, true.
Better?
Losing our souls – a high price to pay.