Elio D'Anna

Elio D'Anna

We are raised with the conviction that everything must come to an end - First part.

From childhood, we learn to think in terms of limits, deadlines, loss, and defeat.

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Elio D'Anna
Aug 13, 2026
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Our education, our culture, even our language are built around the assumption that everything must eventually end: the body, time, desire, imagination, memory, dreams, life itself.

And yet, if we were educated not for endings but for infinity; if we were trained in timelessness, in fearlessness, in the absence of death, then human civilization would assume an entirely different face.

Imagine, for a moment, a human species trained not in renunciation but in continuity. Imagine individuals raised not beneath the sign of inevitable dissolution, but beneath the sign of perpetual transformation. Within such a horizon, immortality itself would no longer appear as a naïve dream or a mythological fantasy, but as the natural aim of knowledge, a return to our authentic nature: a life without end.

Artificial intelligence, as we conceive it today, would then seem like a club in the hands of prehistoric cave dwellers, a relic of prehistory itself: the first crude and primitive attempt to approach what we might become if only we ceased to think in terms of endings.

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