I think I understand now what Paul Kingsnorth is getting at in his article when he says he thinks there is a presence guiding the development of the “machine” and it is coming alive. “… these machines … are not just machines. That they are something else: a body. A body whose mind is in the process of developing; a body beginning to come to life..”. That presence is Satan and the reason he is pushing AI to be developed quickly is he knows his time is short. He needs AI to be implanted in humans so he can have eternal life through existing in a transhuman being. He needs a BODY.
Think of it like this. In the garden, after they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God said that Adam and Eve could no longer stay in the garden “Lest they eat of the tree of life and become like us, living forever”. God was protecting them. They would have been irredeemable, permanently trapped in their spiritually dead condition, which would have greatly pleased Satan.
Those seeking to merge human bodies with computers, the transhumanists, using the technology of artificial intelligence, are seeking immortality. The goal is to download human consciousness into a chip so it will never die. This may even be possible as far as the electrical record created by thoughts of a human, but it will not include the spirit. The spirit is supernatural, not physical, and is part of God’s spirit. It cannot be contained. It merely resides in us until our bodies die. But not everyone has the spirit of God, only those who have been born again or regenerated when they repent and believe. The others, the condemned, have dead spirits. They refused to believe and be saved. They chose death.
Transhumanists and AI scientists don’t know that they are controlled by and driven by demons to make a way for Satan to have eternal life. These demons were cast out from God’s presence down to the earth. They currently exist as parasites in human bodies. (See Mark 5:12) If all the humans die, they will be homeless and they cannot go back to where God is, so they will die. They know this. But maybe, the demons think, if we can trap human souls in a computer, we can live through them. It is a doomed mission, but many will suffer before God puts a stop to it.
God is an eternal spirit and his children will also live forever. But the Devil and his angels and the condemned humans will die forever in the lake of fire.
The thesis that you and Paul propose has nothing to do with Reality Itself.
For you, the death of bodies (including your own) is a philosophical matter that causes untrust, distrust, and hell-deep fear, a matter that fills you with half-baked religious propositions including all of the nonsense about the mythological satan that are Godless, Ecstasyless, Blissless.
As a matter of fact, the World Process is just like Mother Kali. Exactly so. It is full of death, full of process, full of moment-to-moment changes.
Ecstasy requires trust and the utter acceptance of the lawful process that is death.