Tuesday, February 28, 2017
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Sermon on Chapter 13 Revelation: explaining the beast and the world empire systems.
The false prophet's first wonder is the airforce and military. "Fire from the sky."
Notice that the false prophet's second wonder is to give the image (icon) breath. This preacher relates this to television: "Television is spiritual." "You can also include computers in that [category] too."
"Television is programming a worldwide citizenry." The world citizenry bow before this wonder.
The third wonder is the "mark of the beast"---universal product marking code (UPMC).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cBqrGz2Kcs
I found a video that critiques Ken Klein's current teachings (2017) which are idiosyncratic, even heretical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7KGrKxCzI
Notice that the false prophet's second wonder is to give the image (icon) breath. This preacher relates this to television: "Television is spiritual." "You can also include computers in that [category] too."
"Television is programming a worldwide citizenry." The world citizenry bow before this wonder.
The third wonder is the "mark of the beast"---universal product marking code (UPMC).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cBqrGz2Kcs
I found a video that critiques Ken Klein's current teachings (2017) which are idiosyncratic, even heretical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7KGrKxCzI
Monday, February 13, 2017
Elon Musk: A Nice Guy, Just a little Confused!
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/elon-musk-humans-merge-machines-cyborg-artificial-intelligence-robots.html
Click above for the article that states Elon Musk's view that humans must interact with technology/AI in order to remain relevant.
Elon Musk is a nice guy but it is a pity that these ultra-wealthy innovators are so poorly educated in philosophy---with an introductory knowledge of Aristotle's psychology or the medieval understanding of the human soul, Elon would have realized by now that AI is a mass delusion and a false marketing scheme. Intelligence is a spiritual faculty strictly speaking and cannot be reduced to materialistic substrates no matter how nuanced or elegant. If AI had produced one minute piece of evidence that a machine could "behave" or "think" or even "act" with even a small portion of the kind of behavior and thought of a living being, let alone a human, I would be willing to concede that at least some ultra-simplistic and rudimentary level of intelligence had been mimicked. Alas, the behaviors that I see my rabbits performing routinely are beyond the scope or capacity of even the world's finest computer and psychologists. Their modus operandi is as follows: 1. operationally define 'intelligence' as in principle what computers do; 2. change the use of language and anthropomorphize computer "behaviors"-ex) Hold on the computer is "searching"---when it is quite clear that searching is an intelligent act only found in en-souled hence human beings. 3. Re-frame psychological theory and science along the lines of cybernetic, neuroscientific reductionism. 4. make false claims that Watson (IBM) thinks or speaks or acts, or can "beat" a chessmaster. 5. Train every man, woman and child in this "psychology" and 6. Completely forget that psychology is the science of the soul. Finally, forget that the soul exists. 7. Build robots and machines with primitive ability to behave (ex: driverless cars) and claim that this is intelligent behavior, hence it proves that AI is a reality. 8. Make huge prophetic prognostications about the future a la Gini Rometty, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and how much progress AI will have made by then. and 9) never ever consult the Bible or the Book of Revelation because you might realize that human beings might not have ten more years on this planet! Of course the apocalypse would have one great asset for these prophets: it would never be possible to disprove any of their technological claims. Nonetheless trillions of dollars will be invested in technology by those who are dazzled by progress, very few of whom have critically employed their own God-given intelligence to ask if these scenarios are even possible.
However, let me say, just for the record, that AI is impossible and that all efforts to digitalize intelligence have led to a strict diminishment of intelligence. A toddler crawling to his toy has more intelligence than any robot yet devised. In fact the moment this child opens its eyes to behold the truth of this day, it has already surpassed every computer on earth. Computers are nothing but ignorant---and the one who says that they 'think' even though they are gifted with true intelligence become dumber and dumber, and richer and richer because they are leading the entire world astray with these false claims for which not one shred of evidence exists!
Click above for the article that states Elon Musk's view that humans must interact with technology/AI in order to remain relevant.
Elon Musk is a nice guy but it is a pity that these ultra-wealthy innovators are so poorly educated in philosophy---with an introductory knowledge of Aristotle's psychology or the medieval understanding of the human soul, Elon would have realized by now that AI is a mass delusion and a false marketing scheme. Intelligence is a spiritual faculty strictly speaking and cannot be reduced to materialistic substrates no matter how nuanced or elegant. If AI had produced one minute piece of evidence that a machine could "behave" or "think" or even "act" with even a small portion of the kind of behavior and thought of a living being, let alone a human, I would be willing to concede that at least some ultra-simplistic and rudimentary level of intelligence had been mimicked. Alas, the behaviors that I see my rabbits performing routinely are beyond the scope or capacity of even the world's finest computer and psychologists. Their modus operandi is as follows: 1. operationally define 'intelligence' as in principle what computers do; 2. change the use of language and anthropomorphize computer "behaviors"-ex) Hold on the computer is "searching"---when it is quite clear that searching is an intelligent act only found in en-souled hence human beings. 3. Re-frame psychological theory and science along the lines of cybernetic, neuroscientific reductionism. 4. make false claims that Watson (IBM) thinks or speaks or acts, or can "beat" a chessmaster. 5. Train every man, woman and child in this "psychology" and 6. Completely forget that psychology is the science of the soul. Finally, forget that the soul exists. 7. Build robots and machines with primitive ability to behave (ex: driverless cars) and claim that this is intelligent behavior, hence it proves that AI is a reality. 8. Make huge prophetic prognostications about the future a la Gini Rometty, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and how much progress AI will have made by then. and 9) never ever consult the Bible or the Book of Revelation because you might realize that human beings might not have ten more years on this planet! Of course the apocalypse would have one great asset for these prophets: it would never be possible to disprove any of their technological claims. Nonetheless trillions of dollars will be invested in technology by those who are dazzled by progress, very few of whom have critically employed their own God-given intelligence to ask if these scenarios are even possible.
However, let me say, just for the record, that AI is impossible and that all efforts to digitalize intelligence have led to a strict diminishment of intelligence. A toddler crawling to his toy has more intelligence than any robot yet devised. In fact the moment this child opens its eyes to behold the truth of this day, it has already surpassed every computer on earth. Computers are nothing but ignorant---and the one who says that they 'think' even though they are gifted with true intelligence become dumber and dumber, and richer and richer because they are leading the entire world astray with these false claims for which not one shred of evidence exists!
You may disagree with my assessment---but I am not convinced that there has ever been AI and since all of the scientists proclaim it to be a fact---I went even further in my thought and realized that it can never be possible. THe nature of actual intelligence has two essential qualities: a)spirituality---complete inability to be reduced to material substrates; hence the whole---ie. spirit must be invoked when speaking of intelligence; and b)biological substrate--thinking cannot be reduced to static, non-living substrates, since thinking is integrally related to living tissues. The one who thinks and feels says "I think, I feel"---the "I" is not reducible to material substrate hence it spiritually transcends or exists "beyond" the material substrate. The brain is not a computer and is not like a computer. Thinking is yet a mystery---saying that the brain thinks and sketching out neuroscience does not change the transcendental nature of the I! It is this "I think" that is the heart of the matter and not the means by which I know the world.
A more powerful refutation is this practical one: human beings alone are intelligent---humans use materialistic things to assist their living. For example I may "feel" the door with a crutch---the crutch is instrumental, enlarges my perception but the perception is still grounded in my biological, living-thinking-being. This does not mean that the crutch feels! I am the one that feels!
The computer is much like a crutch---it enlarges the human grasp of things but in any case the thinking is not in the instrument of the computer but in the "receiver"! He who receives is the knower, the feeler, the actor.
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