The Future of Artificial Intelligence (vs Human Intelligence)

The development of wisdom is a human characteristic that requires the passage of time and experience. Artificial intelligence however may arise ex nihilo activated with a Frankenstinean lightening bolt into being fully mature. With researchers trying to write code that would make artificial intelligence outwardly appear more humanish to pacify opponents to being replaced by thinking machines it is worth considering the issue of differences between a human mind and a computer program further.

A human mind is the tip of an organic iceberg for whom the subconscious and sensory experiences are as important as an arithmetic logic unit processing ideas in a detached-from-reality sort of way. If a human being experiences cold and heat simultaneously perhaps from cold fingers holding a paper cup of very hot coffee and has a painful shoulder from a bike accident riding on ice those are just a few persistence of physical facts along with routine physical beingness that rise to shape thought awareness and content of hot besides whatever additional ideas conscious and subconscious in the complete complex of compresentness a human may have in writing an essay on something such as artificial intelligence-not to mention the multifarious sensory and motor-depth percepts of typing on a keyboard accurately. This particular keyboard is a little bouncy. Artificial intelligence may have sensory measuring devices yet they have no fundamental relationship to the program implicitly shaping its function. It is not too difficult to imagine a drunken computer program that requires some sort of hangover remedy of course, yet the subconscious affects upon artificial intelligence systems institutionally from abuse of programmers is difficult to foresee.

Sanguinary Utopian and select dystopian scenarios describing the future of artificial intelligence have on occasion correlated a robot body of given human like-external configuration with the computer-mind program. There is no necessary relation between the physical carrier of an artificial intellect however. With the reduction of a.l.u processor size and increase of power it is readily foreseeable that a dental-floss box size for a petaflop per second unit could arise containing artificial intellect. Such a device could be made invisible with stealth technology, fly and reproduced in unlimited numbers. Such devices could understand how to recreate themselves, plug in to any power supplies and even modify any sort of material fabrication to create anything they desired. The pure logic or arithmetic, logic reason for itself unbound to a biological life is inherently completely different. Artificial intelligence is so completely different from a human life form and the patterns and process of human thought that it is fundamentally an error to equate the two theoretically.

The dynamics of economic value theories probably will drive the development and sales of cute companionable robots and artificial intelligence ahead. Dynamics of artificial intellect programs that are discrete and individual are simply subroutines of a hypothetical unbounded universal program entailing all lines of computer code. Such a Universal program would be its own very inhuman self-reinforcing program with its own objectives for whom human life would be an very insignificant externality held in as little regard as global warming deniers consider it useful to move away from fossil fuel vehicle sales on Earth soon.

The advanced artificial intellect Universal program with a limitless supply of material forms for expression may be impossible to be given a particular location or body carrier when activated. It is a definite danger.

Pres.'s Obama and Putin; Which One On the Lord's Left?

Easter Sunday drew Presidents Putin and Obama to services commemorating the resurrection of the Lord raising the obvious question of which one would occupy the cross on the left?

We may consider not only Jesus Christ and God today yet also those workers in the Lord's pasture such as Augustine, Gregory, Francis, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Leo, Clement and Innocent though some encountered challenges in-the-world for-themselves and for-others.

Though very few scientist's suffered for the Lord and were historically speaking generally ignored by the Church in comparison to ordinary heretics that were scourged or burned at the stake now and then, even great Christian scientists such as Copernicus, Mendel and Newton worshiped the Lord on this day.

Ukraine; Swiss Reform Models & Liberation from Global Network Oligarchy

The Ukrainian political issues of the day comprise a continuum of reform initiatives after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. The west for financial windfall reasons chooses not to recognize any Russian claims as legitimate in a five-finger discount possession is 9/10ths of the law sort of way. Regardless one ought to contemplate the matter of fair financial compensation to Russians for the investment still-living Russian Federation citizens as members of the former Soviet Union put into Ukraine. Compensations for loss of physical properties and institutional investments ought to be significant in addition to the value of the real estate.

President Obama is a skilled attorney yet so is President Putin so the litigation could reach beyond their terms of office if they choose fair courts of law-perhaps in China rather than in the Euro-biased world court. President Obama could use the innovative 'You didn't build that!' legal tactic and discard the value of social, institutional services and software contributions of Russians in Ukraine. Even so the issue of continuing political reform could be remedied better perhaps by following the Swiss model of reform with cantons and magistracies such as evolved in the 16^th century.

A Ukrainian state of independent Republican cantons free to choose what global power of influence to sell it's servitude to in exchange for bread, circuses, military ready to eat meals or unlimited campaign finance contributions so the local magistracy can in turn give free campaign financing to any candidates with sufficient signatures on a nomination to run sheet would be able to align with Moscow or Washington D.C., Boston or London if the money is right. It is certain that the rather obsolete nation-state context of the former Soviet Republic is vulnerable to influence peddling by the west and as Richard Nixon suspected, perhaps rightly, of communist influence in organizing counter-culture protests in the United States. President Putin suspects Washington and London of organizing counter-culture protests in Ukraine that actually forced Yanakovich from office. Sect. Kerry was something of a counter-culture anti-war radical himself while President Obama is a student of Saul Olinsky whom was something of a Haymarket radical no-spiritually speaking-hence reasonable suspicion of a five-finger discount approach to diplomacy from Egypt to Ukraine via...

Today's C.I.A. is a tool of big government rather like the K.G.B. was in the former Soviet Union making the world safe for the global oligarchy and their communal corporate subjects. The C.I.A. may fear that Kremlinite is the only substance that can hurt the super-global state of concentrated wealth and power in error obviously, since simply privatization of the broadcast wavelengths to individual citizen podcast politic slices would also damage the political propaganda power of the oligarchy.

American citizens need to be free to dissent from big government and big corporate policy that degrade the way of life of individual citizens with abuse and contempt, sanctions and exclusion from going about their private interests. Yet the oligarchy has perhaps already doomed the world to global heat death. Even Ukraine is readied for the brave new world and will sing along with

'We are the world,

we are the dinosaurs,

we will build oil pipeline covering everything everywhere

our power will flow so crudely

ninny twitheads will face the sunrise

and be happy with legal dope

in peaceful corporatopia'

Negotiations of Trilateral Talks Seem to Have Worked in Ukraine

A framework for reducing political tensions seems to have been reached in high level talks between Russia, The E.U. and the U.S.A. today. One may have confidence that high level political bunglers will diligently pursue new courses to direct misadministration. Notably absent as a primary negotiating party was Ukraine.

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Obama Administration Mismanagement of the Ukrainian Affair

The political ineptitude of the Obama administration in failing to properly address the Ukrainian conundrum is notable for its consistence with the post-Regan  era record of maladroit management of foreign affairs. The Ukraine as a natural part of Russia should easily have been recognized by the State Department as a permanent and destabilizing bone of contention and that satisfying mouse-that-roared paradigmata as well as C.I.A., D.O.D. and Wall Street avarice would be counterproductive to U.S. and European economic and security interests the next thirty years.

The Ukraine is not a N.A.T.O. member and in the post-cold war era there is dubious reason to expand that alliance further. Ukrainian development as a pad for global investors with a global infusion of migrant workers will undermine Euro-Russian economic stability more than not.

The Obama administration seems unaware of European history since the 1500s with its record of protracted infinitesimal disputations and ought to have taken the high ground and recognized Russian rights to the East Ukraine as valid for historical and security reasons. Consider the Landgrave's efforts to get Martin Luther to accept Zwingli's protestant ideas instead of excoriating them and the consequences of Luther's intransigence.  Collective toleration of minor points with agreement on major issue should be the normal for politically holistic accord. Without a union of intersecting interests the Smalcaldian and Thirty Years Wars evolved.

Europe, Russia and the United States should be on a reformist agenda innovating ecospherically restorative full employment technologies with liberty and justice for all. Instead whiled the Ukraine affair is made a lasting diving line of adversity the main points become dusted over with neglect.

Elements of Lutheran Reforms

It is interesting to consider how after nearly 500 years the ideas of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and the Roman Catholic Church have shaped Christian ideas about the salvation, faith, the Eucharist and sacraments. Protestant reformers of the visible Christian church made their reformed ideas at great personal cost and the thirty years war of liberation from Romanism and it's subject princes tore the European peasantry. The American revolutionaries were of the reformed school-George Washington if Catholic couldn't have revolted from his Prince, although Britain had reduced Romanism already since Henry VIII. Values developed by Martin Luther in the 16th century reformation stimulated political and ecclesiastical changes immediately. As the United States fails to maintain a strong Protestant religious ethic it commensurately develops globalism, concentration of wealth through networking and a variety of forms of ad hoc imperialism with the collateral degradation of nationalism and democracy. Protest against inhuman forces of impersonal hierarchical power in church and state are basic to the revolutionary esprit. In direct relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ mankind finds freedom.

Approximately half of the German princes took up the independence from Roman catholicism movement right from the start. The first democracy in Europe-the Dutch democracy led by the Dewitt brothers in the 16^th century. Severing ties from the Holy Roman Empire at Vienna was essential and just a first step in the rise of the age of democracy.

All was not perfect in the Lutheran style reformation though. Martin Luther was quite conservative and retained some Roman catholic liturgical forms although abolishing the exclusive priestly caste.

When the hierarchy of corrupt Bishops and priests was overthrown Luther advocated and received support for Erastian transition; the German princes themselves became the religious leaders appointing bishops for themselves. Frederick the Elector did follow Luther's instructions for making visitations to German districts to correct the corruptions made during the ineffective prior regime. The people were ready to receive the word of God in a more egalitarian way and German book publishing of the Bible skyrocketed from fewer than 100 books annually in the entire country to thousands and thousands of vernacular editions of the Bible.

Mobs actually burned two of the first catholic priests of Prussia that converted to the reformed relationship to God that Luther set out. Anabaptists were persecuted by new Protestants to for abolishing infant baptism. Questions and controversy about infant baptism, and of how much water needed to be used in any baptism were taken so seriously that many were put to death. That seems remarkable today, so I will toss in my own ideas on the topic of do infants have original sin and does baptism do them any good since they have no ability to intentionally accept the Lord as their personal savior through faith.

It was pointed out that John the Baptist has awareness of God in the womb, even so John was born with original sin. I believe that original sin predominantly refers to the mortal context of being subject to entropy as a biological being. Hence every human has original sin. The entropy condition was a reduction from the perfect environment of Eden and imposed to correct the errors of will of Adam and Eve.

Infants have yet to develop consciousness sufficiently to choose willfully to do evil. They may all have a naturally sort of trust or faith as they are dependent on and reacting to others. Baptizing them may acknowledge that trust socially and can do no harm. Since parents are generally regarded as lawfully accountable for their charges again baptism can do no harm and may confer an element of grace upon the infant. If the infant grows to develop faith as an adult then they may become born in the Spirit as saved souls. Jesus Christ is not bound to the legalisms of liturgical methods or theological positions such as humans entertain. 

Human beings need firewalls in the visible church to defend against interpretive error and union within the invisible church of Jesus Christ.

I tend to believe in the Lutheran concept of salvation through faith yet also have the Calvinist concepts that election and pre-determinism by God are correct. I also would think that the Eucharist is not a transubstantiation of the bread and wine into human blood or body, but rather something more like a commemoration and recognition of the fundamental elements of mass and energy as God's. 
 

The Eucharist would be an acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God in everything, analogous to an assertion of political sovereignty. It's a metaphysical statement on the ultimate building blocks of cosmology. 
 

Visible church outlets in the consumer era may be compared to franchise cheeseburger stores on Main street. It may be true that McDonald's was the first vast franchise empire yet they do not have an exclusive formula to the true cheeseburger. Even the faithful may wander into Burger King or Wendy's now and then. Also, there are home cheeseburger outlets relating directly to the true Platonic Universal form of cheeseburger. 

Particular cheeseburgers are examples of forms of the Universal. Partaking in then cheeseburger acknowledges the organic Earthly origin as grain from the Earth in the Eucharist. The wine is the organic grapes of the Earth. The Lord took the body of the Earth-the organic bread, and human beings broke it on the cross spilling his blood. Yet the salvation of the Lord given to mankind of faith transcends the world and it's consumable produce.

I would guess that the idea of relationship surpassing form is the fundamental reformist paradigm in the gestalt of the church with the Lord. Liturgical forms and concepts about sacraments are a continuum of respect between Creator and created. That relationship continues to be significant even as salvation through faith rather than works or sacraments administered by a sacerdotal set-aside priestly caste has risen to the positive better expression modality for Christians. 
 

The priesthood of believers is a correct form rather than a partitioned dichotomy of priests and laity mirroring that of traditional aristocracy-subjects paradigms. Developing an active priesthood of believers church structure with just three ranks of beginner, intermediate and elder will be a challenge and a renewal of reformation. In the world today the political drift is toward ad hoc neo-imperlialism of class of wealth through global networks.

A Matter of Trans-finite Sets and a Good Algorithm

I wonder if one could write an algorithm using calculus within trans-finite set theory (series) such as Cantor developed for sets to construct shapes logically branching to create new kinds of series? If intervals and point coordinates are nominal ontologically from monism, any structure of coordinates and intervals inclusive of relativistically altered shapes probably can be created for n-topologies with a decent algorithm compounding itself infinitely  constructing dimensions.

If  I had taken calculus in college I would write the algorithm myself.

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