I've read that Newton spent most of his time trying to convert lead into gold -- calculus and physics were just a sidelines for him. This is all pretty stupid. We live in a world in which we've been conditioned to believe stupid stuff. I've been watching all the episodes of "The X-Files," the 1993 series in which two FBI agents, Mulder &…
I've read that Newton spent most of his time trying to convert lead into gold -- calculus and physics were just a sidelines for him. This is all pretty stupid. We live in a world in which we've been conditioned to believe stupid stuff. I've been watching all the episodes of "The X-Files," the 1993 series in which two FBI agents, Mulder & Scully, investigate paranormal and UFO incidents. All the stuff the show asks us to accept is really stupid. In the last one I watched we learn that aliens are abducting zoo animals that are pregnant, taking the fetuses, and returning the animals. The aliens do this because humans are causing mass extinctions on Earth, probably. When the animals are returned, they are invisible for a time and go rampaging around killing people and end up dead themselves. Only three stupidities there -- alien abduction, species extinction, and invisibility. The amazing part is that "The X-files" either created or reinforced stupidity in the minds of millions of Americans for whom, if it's on TV it must be real.
I recommend reading Ray Kurzweil's books "The Singularity is Near" and "How to Create a Mind," if you want a sober assessment of what AI is, what it promises, and how our brains function.
As for the spirit world, I'm basically an agnostic. There might -- repeat might -- be another dimension, a spiritual dimension, that we can catch a glimpse of or access now and then under unusual circumstances. I and others I know have had inexplicable experiences in which we "saw" something before it happened, or had some type of spiritual experience. But most of what goes on in the world is not connected to spirituality, including how our brains work and how AI will mimic that working and then move beyond human intelligence. There's nothing magical in a computer or a machine.
There's a reason Newton has been called not so much the first scientist as the last magician. I do take it as not incidental that the same mind would be taken both with "magic" and with (what we now know as) "science". Both have a strong tendency to extending human control over the world via technique. As to your suggestion that most of existence is not connected to spirituality, I couldn't disagree more. The "spiritual" refers to many things at once, so I am not claimed that this vision exhausts it, but at least in part, when we are viewing the world within the context of a particular frame of reference (which is all the time) we are combined an aspect of ourselves (the story we perceive) with the world. Now the modern notion is to term this aspect of spirit as psychological and therefore think it has explained it away, but this seems to me to be a categorical mistake. As you yourself appear to have experienced, existence is constantly looking to explode the orthodoxies of the small boxes we try to place it in.
Yes, the very nature of our existence is a spiritual phenomenon, being played out in a material plane, though "coincidences" are becoming so pervasive at least in my present experience it's hard to not notice them.
I'm convinced about these coincidences......that they are mostly not coincidental....lol.
We are here, at this time, in this place, for God's good purposes. I was wondering earlier today if these coincidences (maybe more like God-winks, or flat-out signs) are "chartable". Would a clear pattern become apparent if I wrote down and/or recorded every one of them as the days progress? These coincidences are so frequent at times that they don't surprise me anymore.
What does He have in store for us?
There is a lot of argumentation, and diversity of opinion here, but I think most of the subscribers here are pondering this......we have this in common, at least.
I've read that Newton spent most of his time trying to convert lead into gold -- calculus and physics were just a sidelines for him. This is all pretty stupid. We live in a world in which we've been conditioned to believe stupid stuff. I've been watching all the episodes of "The X-Files," the 1993 series in which two FBI agents, Mulder & Scully, investigate paranormal and UFO incidents. All the stuff the show asks us to accept is really stupid. In the last one I watched we learn that aliens are abducting zoo animals that are pregnant, taking the fetuses, and returning the animals. The aliens do this because humans are causing mass extinctions on Earth, probably. When the animals are returned, they are invisible for a time and go rampaging around killing people and end up dead themselves. Only three stupidities there -- alien abduction, species extinction, and invisibility. The amazing part is that "The X-files" either created or reinforced stupidity in the minds of millions of Americans for whom, if it's on TV it must be real.
I recommend reading Ray Kurzweil's books "The Singularity is Near" and "How to Create a Mind," if you want a sober assessment of what AI is, what it promises, and how our brains function.
As for the spirit world, I'm basically an agnostic. There might -- repeat might -- be another dimension, a spiritual dimension, that we can catch a glimpse of or access now and then under unusual circumstances. I and others I know have had inexplicable experiences in which we "saw" something before it happened, or had some type of spiritual experience. But most of what goes on in the world is not connected to spirituality, including how our brains work and how AI will mimic that working and then move beyond human intelligence. There's nothing magical in a computer or a machine.
There's a reason Newton has been called not so much the first scientist as the last magician. I do take it as not incidental that the same mind would be taken both with "magic" and with (what we now know as) "science". Both have a strong tendency to extending human control over the world via technique. As to your suggestion that most of existence is not connected to spirituality, I couldn't disagree more. The "spiritual" refers to many things at once, so I am not claimed that this vision exhausts it, but at least in part, when we are viewing the world within the context of a particular frame of reference (which is all the time) we are combined an aspect of ourselves (the story we perceive) with the world. Now the modern notion is to term this aspect of spirit as psychological and therefore think it has explained it away, but this seems to me to be a categorical mistake. As you yourself appear to have experienced, existence is constantly looking to explode the orthodoxies of the small boxes we try to place it in.
Yes, the very nature of our existence is a spiritual phenomenon, being played out in a material plane, though "coincidences" are becoming so pervasive at least in my present experience it's hard to not notice them.
I'm convinced about these coincidences......that they are mostly not coincidental....lol.
We are here, at this time, in this place, for God's good purposes. I was wondering earlier today if these coincidences (maybe more like God-winks, or flat-out signs) are "chartable". Would a clear pattern become apparent if I wrote down and/or recorded every one of them as the days progress? These coincidences are so frequent at times that they don't surprise me anymore.
What does He have in store for us?
There is a lot of argumentation, and diversity of opinion here, but I think most of the subscribers here are pondering this......we have this in common, at least.