I started this Online Book around the beginning of 2025.
Finally settled on the name “From Autopilot to Conscious Evolution” on November 2, 2025, as I journalled about it on my Substack publication
A Name Finally Settled – by Freeman – Beyond the Rat Race
This is a summarization of all the stuff gleaned on this site.
Before I embark on this journey of writing out my thoughts onto this living evolving “Online Book”, I would like to present this chapter as a philosophical anchor point for the rest of my book – an existential undertow to my disillusionment not only with the human rat race, but with the whole unconscious drift of humanity itself. In this, I’m trying to channel the very existential frustration that most people feel deep inside but never articulate – or even allow themselves to think.
The need to write this book is stemming from that nagging feeling in my head that the way things are currently in the world does not feel right somehow! To be very blunt, it feels like a big shit show and it’s hard to watch all the idiocies that are being upheld and newer ones being created on a frenzied pace. It feels like humanity as a whole is drifting along aimlessly – and for people who might be a bit more self-aware, it might be depressing to witness this idiocy.
Most of us go through life on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, handle our routines, chase goals, scroll through screens — and before we know it, the days turn into years. Somewhere along the way, we stop asking the deeper questions. Why are we doing all this? What’s the point?
The truth is that as of 2025, we have no clue as to what’s the deal with this creation. There might be a variety of theories on it based on different religious beliefs and scientific theories, but at the end of the day, nobody knows for sure, what’s reality. For me personally, the realization for now is that this life is more or less a meaningless thing on autopilot.
So, my point is – what the heck, you are anyways stuck here for nearly a century, so, why not collectively give it a better meaning and purpose than the default mode rat race and wage slavery existence that we have ended up with and painfully tolerating?
In other words:
If the universe refuses to offer us clarity, then perhaps it is upon us to craft our own — to make sense of life not as drifters lost in eternity, but as beings who choose to view it from a vantage point of awareness and purpose.
“From Autopilot to Conscious Evolution” is my attempt – specifically a thought experiment to explore those questions — to look at life from a more awake place. It’s not about rejecting the world but about seeing it clearly enough to live in it with awareness and purpose. This is about shifting from merely surviving to truly living; from reacting, to creating; from drifting without direction, to evolving with intent.
I believe that in today’s time it’s pertinent for us to start thinking in those lines, because just like how the universe evolves in complexity and intelligence, maybe it’s time for us humans to do the same — consciously. It looks like the human consciousness has evolved up to a point where we can now theoretically afford to stop evolving on autopilot and start evolving and living consciously – just so that we can make the experience of the 100 or so years that we get here enjoyable and somewhat meaningful, as opposed to struggling to survive and competing with each other like un-evolved animals with low levels of self-awareness.
I know that this thought process would be fraught with a lot of resistance from all over – and I won’t be judging anyone for that, because as I already said, even this resistance is stemming un-consciously from their collective evolutionary instincts, coupled with the societal narratives and beliefs that they were born into. Its understandable that it will be really difficult for a lot of people to imagine a being beyond those narratives and belief systems and look at things from a higher vantage point from where they could be able to visualize a bigger picture and different perspectives of our existence.
The original intended title for this book was “The Only Problem that Humanity Needs to Solve”. It was so, because my idea was rooted in the belief that humanity’s struggles and idiocies – all stem from a single solvable problem. The only problem that truly matters is this one.
What if by tackling this one issue, we could unlock the answers to all the others? That’s the bold idea I want to explore and I’m inviting you to join me on this journey.
So, let’s find out!
— Freeman