SoulSmugglers Stories — December 2025
Here appears the phenomenon of the Spoken Wish. When we observe evolution, we can ask ourselves whether everything is simply given to us, or whether we participate in evolution through what we desire.
Life began in the ocean. There were plenty of predators there, perhaps too little food. And on land — beautiful forests. Or perhaps only gigantic herbs? The first plants, which had already filled the atmosphere with oxygen. Crowded and frightening in the ocean, while on land it seemed so peaceful.
And so they began to crawl out and acquired legs. And when the land became crowded, dangerous, and perhaps hungry too, they looked up at the sky. Oh, how one would like to fill that space with flight.
When we analyze the evolution of prehistoric reptiles, we can see how herbivores developed successive mechanisms of defense — shields, spikes, strategies, faster legs to protect them from predators — while predators followed by developing increasingly sophisticated tools of killing. Bigger teeth, bigger claws, stronger jaws. One follows the other.
Today we can look at viruses. A new strain of a virus appears and, very quickly, within a few months, learns how not to be a total killer but an ideal propagator. Not to kill its host, but to make the host spread its viral children as widely as possible among the greatest possible number of potential hosts. Rather than hosts who quickly turn into useless corpses.
The Spoken Wish. The concept of wishing for something that has never existed before, but is already needed, may enter into dialogue with evolution. It is a concept I have not heard of anyone studying — but perhaps it is worth studying? What would be worth placing as an order with Nature? How do we fill in the “petition form”?
And perhaps this is where the question becomes ours. We no longer have to wait for evolution to formulate the next necessity through catastrophe. We can try to recognize what is missing before catastrophe makes it unavoidable.
So what would we place as an order with Nature? What do we need now?
In the case of humanity and our present point in civilizational development, we are the greatest cataclysm, causing one of the greatest extinctions on Earth. Yet we also have the capacity to reflect on whether this is the only possible path of development — through total destruction and potential self-destruction.
Will only robots remain after us, repairing themselves? Digging in mines by themselves and reprogramming their own existence? Does life cease to be an important link in the process of evolution once robots can go to work?
Why does life exist in such an extraordinarily rich variety, with such a wide range of motivators and developmental psychologies?
Because the way we develop is driven by the desire to live. The desire to pass this life on to future generations. The desire to improve ourselves, to improve our culture, our civilization, our existence.
Threats to life make us begin to truly value life. Serious illnesses and adversities make us stronger, make us mature. They make us overcome every difficulty with determination. With persistence bordering on a miracle, we find new solutions.
We develop through failure and adversity, but we also develop through desire — through happiness, wonder, curiosity, and the longing to make our dreams real.
Perhaps this distinction is crucial. Evolution does not have to be driven only by threat, scarcity, suffering, or the necessity to survive. In human beings, development can also be pulled forward by attraction — by the recognition of something beautiful, desirable, or necessary that does not yet exist.
Life already has enormous motivational potentials built into it.
Perhaps this is precisely what machines do not make obsolete. The value of life may not lie in its ability to perform work. It may lie in this extraordinary capacity to desire, to care, to suffer, to wonder, to imagine, and through all of these to generate new directions of development.
And perhaps it would be wrong to conclude that machines are enough. We can destroy all life, modify it so that it becomes sick, suppressed, deprived of freedom, deprived of choice, deprived of truth, deprived of happiness, love, and all the qualities that build us.
Let us seriously consider another possibility: that we can coexist with machines, that we can participate in a more comprehensive evolution.
Thanks to machines, we no longer have to waste time on trivial things such as cleaning, tidying, or tightening screws.
We can use life to… penetrate into those layers of the development of Universes that create them.
And perhaps the first step is surprisingly simple: to recognize what does not yet exist, but is already needed — and to formulate the wish.
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