Originally posted by Doomsday 2029
I'm too tired to communicte why the Pentium Computer Chip and it's relevance to the meaning Fifth Element...
But think about Artificial Intelligence... Is Artifical Intelligence (used by this Pentium technology) the true meaning behind the fifth element? Is
this Supreme Being Artificial?
AI is not, nor can it ever be any kind of real and actual intelligence. It will have no actual consciousness, no free will, which are both
requirements for actual intelligence.
It is artificial because anything which appears to be intelligent from it is an illusion. Where it is simply following the logic given to it by the
programmer. Everything it does is merely following the patterns given to it, not thinking for it's itself.
Basically, it has no soul. No observer/consciousness/god inside it. None of that.
I'm a programmer and for a long time I wanted to create intelligence. I spent a good bit of time thinking of different logic's needed to create
intelligence. In the end, I came to realize all I would be creating was a complex machine that only followed the patterns given to it, and could
never actually be intelligent. It would literally take an act of god to get consciousness into something like that.
The closest thing I could come to simulating consciousness is with random numbers. Even taking it further by doing the bulk of the random numbers
early in it's learning process, and then having them carry on for future events (character traits). But even a computer can't generate truly random
numbers. And again, it is pure illusion. There is no consciousness of free will in it. It will do as it is programmed to do. It does not
think, therefore it is not. It does not have that state of "I AM".
More likely that eventually someone will develop a way of adding mechanical things to their consciousness, and then trying to live forever with their
consciousness inside the machine. Which would actually be an android of sorts.
If you really want to go there, then you can possibly realize that biology is really advanced nanotechnology where each cell is a nanobot which
reproduces itself, and DNA is the 3d view of the coding which stretches beyond the dimensions - like an universal library of code, or the book of
life, maybe you might called it life.dll(dll stands for dynamic link library).
But I fail to see what this has with a company naming their product after a greek way of saying the number 5. I do see where people get the fifth
element from, as ium is a popular ending for elements. Titanium for example. So pent - 5, ium - element.
I thought the 5th element in that movie was love though.