Samenvatting

In the alchemy of the 21st century, the dream of yore - to turn lead into gold – is now to create mental faculties (mind), for example in CPUs. Every university and tech company focuses on living technology, on artificial intelligence, with real brainpower, to make autonomous decisions based on a built-in moral compass, called the "digital transformation". However, if one looks back in 2222 to us now in 2022, one will probably see the alchemists of 1666 as the smarter ones. With the ancient alchemists we share the ambition to be Creators. They failed. We achieved the exact opposite: we are able to destroy the planet, but not to create as nature does, in infinite diversity. The article argues why.