Physicist Claims To Have Solved the Mystery of Consciousness

Annee can say something I find quite offensive, but it is then within my ability to ignore it or discount it; a computer would not have such ability.


TheRedneck

Without reason it sounds like a dangerous machine..Maybe for sales and demographic speculation it may have some kind of out there purpose

a reply to: didntasktobeborned

That's the reason, I feel, that we have spiritual intelligence. It gives us that reasoning and tolerance to consider stimuli before blindly acting on it.

I'd tend to agree with you that without that reasoning and tolerance, emotions can be quite terrifying. When one considers that almost all violent crime is committed via an emotional response, it becomes even more terrifying. We all have the ability within ourselves to do evil; most of us simply suppress that ability during our normal lives. Extreme emotional responses create situations we are not accustomed to handling, so we really have no Pavlovian intelligence to react with; the result can easily be that we react more instinctively with the only instinctive tool we have; violence.

Consider a newborn child again, one which has precious little spiritual intelligence thus far. When born, a human is very weak and not at all coordinated; about all they can do is cry out and flail helplessly. They are physically incapable of anything approaching violence against others. As they get older, a child will learn to crawl, work its hands, and eventually walk and run. It is common for a very young child, say age 2 or 3 (the "terrible twos"), to exhibit periods of rage, lashing out at whoever or whatever is handy. That is the result of a situation presenting itself that they are unprepared for using Pavlovian intelligence. Their instinctive intelligence then kicks in and they begin Pavlovian learning via that. If they are punished for their improper behavior, the Pavlovian learning registers that as a failed result; if not, it is quite possible that their Pavlovian learning will interpret their actions as effective and that will then, in either case, be a learned pattern of behavior they will draw on next time a similar situation appears.

The child who is corrected from a very early age will learn to use reason to resolve sudden, unexpected stimuli. The child who is allowed to throw temper tantrums will learn to use temper tantrums whenever they are confronted with sudden, unexpected stimuli. By the time the spiritual intelligence begins to fully manifest, the Pavlovian responses are already ingrained and can act ot either encourage or discourage the development of that spiritual intelligence.

But in a computer, a machine that is manufactured and expected to operate correctly out of the box, all those lessons that are learned through Pavlovian intelligence must be pre-programmed in. Sudden and unexpected stimuli is quite common in the physical world, so the machine becomes a loose cannot just waiting for something that does not have the desired response to happen. it also has the disadvantage not even containing any spiritual intelligence, since we cannot define such exactly and thus cannot implement it in our creations. Add in emotional variances in approach and that machine can easily become a killing machine.

Scary stuff, and it gets scarier the more one digs into it.

TheRedneck