The Mission of Stimulo: Creating a Better Future for Humanity

The Struggle for Survival

As animals that we are, we all have a primary goal, which is the survival of the species to which we belong, the one with which we identify. To achieve this, we must manage the resources to which we have access and that are essential for human life in the best way we know. Currently, the human species is established on planet Earth, which has resources that are quite limited (not to be confused with scarce). As humans, we compete against other species with similar purposes, and they utilize a portion of the resources we use.

We consume plants and animals, as they provide us with essential energy to sustain life. We wouldn’t be concerned about what happens to the plants if we weren’t dependent on them. Without plants, we wouldn’t have food, nor food to feed many of the animals we also consume. We wouldn’t have the raw materials we use for a wide range of activities, and we wouldn’t even have the air in conditions that allow us to live.

To understand how humanity has been engaged in this battle against other species, we need to examine our competitive advantage, what sets us apart from the rest of the species. One might think it’s intelligence, cunning, or consciousness, but as clever and resourceful as we are, if a human is alone in the wild, survival becomes quite challenging. I believe that our significant advantage over other species is our ability to cooperate. We are not the only species capable of cooperation. For example, chimpanzees, which share many similarities with Homo sapiens, can cooperate to perform certain tasks more efficiently. However, there has never been a discovery of a group of more than 50 individuals among them, and they lack the capacity to cooperate on a large scale.

It’s true that other species cooperate in communities with many more members, such as ants or bees. Nevertheless, the key difference in this case is that each individual has specific functions and lacks the capacity to adapt, learn, or change as we do.

Cooperation as a Competitive Advantage

10,000 years ago, we were like chimpanzees; there were no communities with more than 200 individuals. However, near what we now know as the Middle East, the situation began to change. Groups of humans who were previously nomadic transitioned to a sedentary lifestyle. Instead of being gatherers, they learned they could cultivate their own food. Communities that previously had no more than 200 individuals began to multiply. With fewer than 200 humans, it was not feasible to cultivate food, build homes, or protect against various dangers.

Additionally, a new threat emerged: the possibility of other groups of humans attacking to seize resources. Due to these circumstances, the larger the number of people in a tribe, the higher their chances of survival. However, there is a crucial factor we haven’t mentioned: a human lacks the capacity to intimately know more than 200 individuals. Even today, we are still incapable of this. And of course, how could we trust people we don’t know, as it would require significant effort to do so.

This would have been a limiting factor that would not have allowed the creation of civilizations if it hadn’t been for stories. Stories allowed us, for the first time, to cooperate with other humans we didn’t know. Stories like religions or beliefs such as the value of money allowed us to cooperate in large communities, increasing the likelihood of the survival of the human species.

Thanks to this cooperation we mentioned, a small portion of the population could afford the luxury of dedicating themselves to things that didn’t yield an immediate return. However, over the years, these investments have proven to be highly rewarding. We’re talking about activities like philosophy, mathematics, engineering, biology… All the discoveries and knowledge we have acquired as a society over time have brought about a change in stories and beliefs. We have always had the need to believe that life has a meaning beyond our individual existence.

In the early civilizations, it was believed that natural phenomena occurred at the will of a group of deities or that a single all-powerful god controlled the world in which they lived. For this reason, the primary goal of people was to please these gods, who, proud of our actions, would reward us with rain, fertile lands, victories in wars, or eternal life in paradise after death.

The Evolution of Cooperation and the Role of Stories

But thanks to advances in science, technology, and knowledge in general, these beliefs began to change. Entities like gods were no longer held responsible for what happened on Earth, and humans were placed at the center. This marked the beginning of humanism. We stopped believing that a god should guide our actions and started using our own intuition to guide our deeds.

Thanks to these changes, we have been able to statistically address the three major problems humanity has faced since the dawn of civilizations: diseases, hunger, and wars. Currently, a large number of diseases have been eradicated, more people in the world die from diabetes than from a lack of food, and more people commit suicide than die in wars or terrorist attacks.

However, if we say that the three problems that have posed the greatest threat to our species over the last 10,000 years have taken a back seat, what should people focus their efforts on today? As historian Yuval Noah Harari states, the challenges of contemporary society are immortality, happiness, and divinity. Thanks to advancements in a wide range of fields, these ideas are no longer confined to science fiction. Potentially, human life can be extended infinitely, and once immortality is achieved, all that remains is to use the time we have to be happy and do things that in the past only gods were thought capable of.

New Challenges: Immortality, Happiness, and Divinity

Today, humanity faces new challenges: immortality, happiness, and divinity. Thanks to scientific progress, human life can be extended indefinitely. Once immortality is achieved, happiness and previously unimaginable capabilities become possible.

The Mission of Stimulo

In this new context, Stimulo has a clear mission: to use technology to improve the health, productivity, and well-being of individuals. Working in the creation of physical products, we contribute to a healthier, happier, and more divine future, embracing the challenges of immortality and happiness as goals for humanity.

With this vision, Stimulo is committed to building a better world by using cooperation, innovation, and knowledge to address the challenges of our time and offer solutions that benefit humanity in its pursuit of immortality, happiness, and divinity.