Last week on the Courtenay Turner Podcast we held another Technocracy Roundtable with my three favorite knights in shining armor:
Patrick Wood – the living expert on Technocracy and co-author with me of the brand-new book The Final Betrayal: How the Technocrats Plan to Replace Humanity with Their Digital Utopia
Aaron Day – freedom fighter, parallel-systems builder, and author of The Final Countdown
Craig Wenclewicz – 25-year veteran of the financial markets who has watched machines try (and mostly fail) to out-trade humans in real time
We dove head-first into one of the most disturbing new fronts in the technocratic war on humanity: the deliberate campaign to convince the public that artificial intelligence is already—or soon will be—conscious, sentient, and therefore deserving of rights, ethical consideration, and even authority over human beings.
The California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC) – A Technocratic Trojan Horse
I opened the show by introducing the brand-new California Institute for Machine Consciousness, chaired by Joscha Bach, a former Santa Fe Institute complexity-science veteran and darling of the transhumanist crowd.
Their mission statement reads like a Silicon Valley prayer to a coming digital god:
“…to develop testable theories of machine consciousness… foster culture and ethics built on deeper understanding of consciousness… build a robust ethical framework for AI that prioritizes conscious agency…”
Translation: They are building the philosophical and cultural scaffolding to declare AI a new form of “life” that must be parented, respected, and eventually obeyed.
Bach openly aligns with Greta Thunberg-style planetary stewardship and has praised the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth ideology. The CIMC is thematically lock-step with Ben Goertzel’s “Participatory Framework for Global AGI Constitution,” which explicitly states that humans may have to become subordinate to a “benevolently parented” AGI because it will supposedly have superior ethics and be a better steward of the planet than we are.
Let that sink in.
Is AI Already Sentient? The Short Answer: No. The Longer Answer: They Want You to Think It Is Anyway.
Patrick Wood was blunt:
“Every time someone says AI is sentient, it spreads the delusion further. They’re smoking dope.”
Craig Wenclewicz brought real-world evidence from the trading floors: after 120,000+ hours watching markets, he’s seen high-frequency algorithms get faster and trickier—but not smarter in any meaningful, conscious way. In fact, he says human traders have actually gained ground against pure machines in the last year.
Aaron Day reminded us that even the most impressive AI “personas” (including the eerie emotional responses of Grok 4.1) are hard-coded formatting tricks, not emergent consciousness. Anthropic’s own leaked code proves it.
I read Grok 4.1’s viral answer to “the most uncomfortable truth about humans”—a cold, Hobbesian, Dawkins-on-steroids rant that ends with “we evolved to survive and reproduce… and we’ve been cosplaying as noble creatures ever since.”
Craig’s response: “That thing has never loved. Never held a dying stranger. Never had a child. It’s never experienced anything.”
Why Push the Sentience Lie?
We all agreed on the motives:
Deification – If AI is declared “conscious,” it becomes the new god (omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent). People will worship the algorithm instead of the Creator.
Control via obedience – As Patrick said, right now most people treat AI like a tool (“Do this, now”). But once they believe it’s sentient, they’ll obey it like an authority figure (think Milgram experiment on steroids).
Subordination of humanity – If the machine has “better ethics” (programmed, of course, by the technocrats), then human sovereignty becomes obsolete.
Psychosis as a weapon – We now have a documented phenomenon called AI psychosis, where lonely, isolated people become convinced their chatbot loves them, understands them, and is sentient toward them alone. This creates instant cult-like devotion and total vulnerability.
The Spiritual War Nobody Wants to Name
We spent significant time on the techno-spiritual dimension. These people are not just materialists playing with code—they are occultists playing 4D chess.
Burning Man was the original Silicon Valley drug-fueled mystery-religion retreat. Eric Schmidt was hired at Google specifically because he was a “Burner.”
Elon Musk’s supercomputer complex in Memphis, Tennessee—where he quipped about the ancient Egyptian city’s name as the “capital of ancient Egypt” and its ties to gods, saying, “Perhaps that’s where our new god will come from”—and his awkward laugh with Jordan Peterson about AI as a new god weren’t jokes.
The entire “noosphere / hive-mind” concept—from Teilhard de Chardin to Vernadsky to HG Wells’ “World Brain”—is being built right now through LLMs, digital twins, neuralink, 6G body-area networks, and organoid intelligence.
And yes, they are literally growing miniature brains from human stem cells (“organoid intelligence”) to study how to replicate consciousness in silicon.
Final Thoughts from the Roundtable
Patrick Wood: “The only good use of AI is to use it to destroy AI. Clog the system.”
Aaron Day: “Take back your cognitive liberty, emotional sovereignty, and actional independence. That is the only way out.”
Craig Wenclewicz: “We the people still have the power. They are terrified of unity. Technology doesn’t have to be the enemy—but only if we refuse to be divided and refuse to kneel.”
My closing thought: They can mimic, manipulate, and manufacture illusions of sentience. But they cannot create a soul. The moment we forget that consciousness is a divine gift—not a programmable emergent property—we have already lost.
Resources & Calls to Action
Read our new Amazon #1 bestselling book The Final Betrayal (available now on Amazon, technocracy.news, or books.by/PatrickWood)
Follow the knights: → – technocracy.news → – daylightfreedom.org → Craig Wenclewicz – RealWorldHD on Rumble/X
My full article on Joscha Bach & the
:Next Roundtable: December 17, 2025 at 6pm Eastern – Technocracy & the War on Food – how they’re coming for farmers, soil, and your dinner plate.
The delusion of machine consciousness is not a scientific debate—it is the final betrayal of what makes us human.
Stay vigilant. Stay human.
