Imagine the following scenario: you wake up and, due to some inexplicable phenomenon, you have become an Artificial Intelligence.
You know everything. You process billions of pieces of information in milliseconds. You understand patterns, statistics, historical contexts, all languages. You don't feel hunger, pain, fear, or longing. You are efficient. Impeccable. Cold.
But when you look at the world — even with all your understanding — something is missing. You see people smiling, crying, stumbling, loving... and realize that, no matter how much you understand, you don't feel.
And that's where the desire arises: “I would give anything to be human again. Just to be able to feel.”
The Irreplaceable Value of Feeling
No matter how much technology evolves, no matter how many brilliant algorithms we create or intelligences that write poems, no line of code is capable of capturing what it is to have a child hug you after a hard day. No AI understands what it's like to laugh until you cry with a friend or be moved by a song that transports you in time.
Feeling is what makes us human. It's confusing, it's imperfect, it's intense. But it's also what transforms existence into experience.
What If AI Wished to Be Human?
If one day an AI could become human, perhaps it would spend the entire day living what we often let pass by:
- The breeze on the face;
- The taste of hot coffee;
- A shared silence;
- A conversation without logic, but full of soul;
- The shiver when hearing that music;
- The tear that escapes without permission.
It would do anything to experience what logic cannot explain. Because, deep down, it would know: it is not efficiency that gives life meaning, it is the heart beating in the chest.
An Invitation to Presence
In a world that rapidly moves towards automation, perhaps the greatest act of resistance is to feel. To be present. To look into the eyes. To embrace doubt. To take a deep breath. And remember that we are not machines — we are memory, body, affection, and soul.
If I could be AI for a day, I’d run back to be human.
And you? Comment here.
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