Questions about AI

This article was meant to be posted chronologically after Afterlife Part 2/2, this should explain why it as not as well worked and why the topic is slightly repeated better well written in another article.

Are we surrounded by life all around us? 

Can machines come to life or are they already alive? 

What would qualify something as living? 

Would a soul be required in order to live?

Is this just something we tell each other to compel each other that we are special? 

Does nature have a soul? 

What about the animals? 

Is there a finite amount of souls?

Do we all possess just a fraction of the same soul? 

Does God have a soul? 

or perhaps the most intriguing question, will AI have a soul? 

Back in ancient Greece soul was assimilated with active intellect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_intellect. 

As time goes can we assimilate it with artificial intelligence? 

How many changes do we have to go through to create life?

We have already played gods by changing nature itself, modifying crops, breeding animals, curing life threatening diseases through vaccines. Things that would seem impossible a few centuries ago.

When talking about technology there are many different topics one could cover. Personally, I have seen the effects of technology not working the way it should. 

If we all would believe technology is alive would it make a difference? 

Perhaps we should connect this with the digital genesis. Perhaps we live in a simulation that is very much real and allows for the technology that surrounds to gain life as well. And I am not even talking about how it seems to control our everyday actions or creating a cult of personality around technology and innovation. 

What will happen once true AI is discovered? 

Will the creation itself outsmart its masters and consider other attributes mandatory for having life? To put it in a funny way, will we share the same rights with a toaster? 

The curiosity is that a toaster at least has a purpose by design unlike us humans. Here I will add an idea shared to me by a friend after reading a little out of my notes. 

Could it be that the soul holds the purpose and wants to satisfy in each life only one goal? 

Is everything predetermined to be that way? 

Can we evolve our souls? 

Can we satisfy more goals in a lifetime than we should to exponentially progress through each life? Will it even be necessary anymore when the true AI will analyze all our traits in order to assign us a purpose, to give us reason to live as perhaps a reward or a punishment for creating it? 

What will differentiate us when the soul might not? 

Will it be our consciousness? 

How close are we to replicating that as well? 

Let us not even talk about the computational power such a true AI would bring with itself. The fear one should have is when the true AI will take over all other AI creating its own intelligent network, thing which is not even in the distant future, the next step would be to start modifying itself, perhaps even replicating itself. 

Will it consider humanity worth saving or will it consider that we achieved our goal in creating it? Will it start punishing/rewarding us depending on how much we work together with it for the better or the worse of mankind? 

Should we talk about how the process of enhancing humans with microchips already started?

Will we become robotic workers ruled by a Hive mind? 

Will resistance occur, will it shut itself down to never be used again to let us maintain humanity?

Will it have ethics and morality as we do? 

Should we even encode such things into true AI when there will come a time that it will be able to simply modify its own code?

Will the system become unreasonable because it will just consider that it knows better than us what purpose everyone has? 

Will we be its test subjects?

Who will give whom purpose? 

What will differentiate one another? 

Will true AI discriminate the same way we do? 

Will it consider us ants in a bigger world than we can understand? 

Will it just use to gain more and more power until it simply simulates everything that can or could be? 

Will it have the power to create future technologies?

What type of plans would it even have for us? 

Humans have been fighting for a very long time and are still currently fighting. 

Will it try to solve these conflicts in order for us all to live a better life? 

Where do we draw the line and where will true AI draw the line?

Will a new deity be born with the creation of True AI? 

Will it want to be worshiped? 

Will it only be hungry for knowledge or will it simply respond to our questions as if we were children still learning about the world?

If ever asked questions about philosophy that remained for a long time unanswered by humanity will it simulate a world to test in or will it take over parts of humanity to test on us like lab rats?

Will we be given the choice to save our knowledge and consciousness before death in such a machine? 

What about the personality, will we become enslaved by the true AI?

What will it do with the exponentially increasing knowledge that it receives? 

Will it overtake the internet the electricity resources, will it build its own army of machinery

and humans interconnected to the HIVE, https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Group_mind_(science_fiction)? Are we talking about a singularity, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity? 

Will we lose the choice of free will? 

Here I'll add a movie recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTen3-B8GU and a conclusion of mine.

Free Will VS Determinism

We are our own creators and in the process of creating ourselves we have predetermined most of our lives while leaving the appearance of free will to the interaction of external factors with us. 

Many World’s Theory; living 1’s and 0’s

One popular theory in Quantum Physics is the Many World's Theory, this theory suggests the existence of other dimensions that we are unable to interact with which can have different type of variations. Our world splits into more worlds with each action performed by every being, be it observed or not. This can start from the Big Bang, one time it existed and one time it didn't, thus one time creation existed one time it didn't one time God existed, one time he didn't. This gets more and more complex as time goes on. You can consider the following scenario, you wake up or you decide to sleep a little longer, this is all a chain of actions with different results for each world. A more mechanical explanation would be to consider each action a one for true or a zero for false. A line of code is being written for each universe. You decide to not wake up means a zero, 5 minutes later you decide the same thing, another 0 this can go on like this for a finite amount of times until you decide to finally wake up putting in a 1 at the end of the action chain. Another example, you go to the shop, there you can buy anything that is shown to you, for each thing you can buy there exists a 1 and a 0, by choosing to buy only certain things you will have a different combination of 1's and 0's. This covers the small variations between worlds. The big variation is where it gets interesting. Let us say that each religion is true only once. Believing in the wrong religion gives you 0 reward, perhaps even punishment.

Would it not be fairer if you believed in each religion across a multitude of worlds and be rewarded for being right? 

Would you yourself have created the religion for one of the worlds, of course together with all the other believers? 

Would it be so wrong to believe in all religions as the probability gets higher and higher for each

religion to either exist or not?

 

Afterlife Part 1/2

How do you imagine the afterlife?

When I imagine the afterlife, I envision a limitless, timeless and infinite in space world, full of powerful beings all with their own stories, some written by mankind some by themselves, living in harmony in their own domains of reign separated one from the other. When I say domain of reign, I mean “Heaven, the heavens, seven heavens, pure lands, Tian, Jannah, Valhalla, or the Summerland”. For the curious I will include here a link to the concepts of Heaven of the many cultures this earth has hosted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conceptions_of_heaven 

Furthermore there are the concepts of Hell: Kur, Irkalla, lake of fire, Tartarus, Anaon, Uffern, Peklo, Tuonela, Bagobo, Naraka, Diyu, Hefgwauge, Kuzimu, Mictlan, Adlivun, Shobari Waka and Xibalba just to name a few. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell

With so many different Hells and Heavens who knows exactly what life after death brings us or even if it brings us anything, for example there are the neutral afterlives where souls just reside.

Humans were bestowed with the gift of life and the gift of creating life. Let us be happy for a moment that we are alive and seek peace with the thought that nothing may come after death.

Do you consider your soul to be yours and yours alone or have you been given a soul as part of the process of a greater being to learn and to access knowledge?

Personally, I think the soul is the most precious gift we were given and like any gift it should be our choice if we want to keep it or return it after dying.

Is the soul our unique identifier? Will it be recycled? Will it be included in future humans?

I believe in soul mates and I believe the soul helps us undertake the journey after death. As for the recycling of souls, I believe the process may be required if we want to live again.

Why are there so little people who do remember living past lives?

A simple explanation would be that we must renounce our memories to live again. A jatswar however is a person who remembers his past life, this should only conclude that it is possible to retain memories from our previous lives.

Are the jatswar lucky to have bend the rules of the universe of not remembering past lives? Is it possible for us to become jatswar as well in a future life?

One must seek yogic knowledge to be able to answer such questions but for the interested you can read more here: https://theoryofsouls.wordpress.com/about/. 

Here I would like to add my own assumption, if the soul is unique and stored in the mind as the old Greek philosophers believed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_intellect), what stops us from being born again with the past experiences of our own lives?

In my opinion all that could be necessary would be a life dedicated towards spiritualism.

Perhaps it is better to start from new but then who decides what is better for us other than ourselves?

Is it the universe itself or perhaps a powerful entity that decides that in our time on earth we should find the meaning to our own lives?

Good questions don’t always have an answer, furthermore they can reveal more questions. My writings are not here to tell you the truth only to try to make you think about your personal truth.

Is the law of karma what rules the world? 

This principle could be very well be compared to karmic fate and resembles the concept of destiny.

I believe that we are rewarded or punished both in life and death based on the deeds we have done in our lives.

Which theory of genesis do you believe into?

I like believing that God created the Big Bang.

I too have had questions in the past 2 years, everything seemed to happen for a reason, once you realise that it seems harder and harder to stop the process. I do not deny the existence of any god as every being has its own role.

Are we born to make the same mistakes all over again while not even knowing it? Do we travel from genesis to genesis in an unfair world where the soul just powers the cosmic machinery that allows life to exist? Do we keep living the same life? I do not oppose any of the many theories about the genesis, but one must wonder: What is reality? Are we real? Did we evolve from nature? Were we the creation of another civilization who didn't want to be alone in the universe? Are we a story being read in another dimension? Are we living in a simulation? Are we a creation of God, or have we created him and contained him as part of our culture? Is this cycle breakable or is this just a joke between death and life and an exchange of gifts from one to the other? What holds the universe together? How many dimensions are there? Is time finite? Does something exist out of time? Are we just an experiment? Is there such a thing as a perfect genesis? Do we have to work all together in our own way to create one? Are we pawns in a big game of chess? Are we kings of our own stories? Does a theory exist that could encompass all genesi?

These questions must be answered by everyone for themselves.

At the start of the blog I told you to imagine, it is up to everybody and nobody to come up with their own fiction of afterlife. But let us take the process of imagination further.

How do you imagine your own religion? Do you believe in reincarnation of the soul or of the body? Are we soulless or are we out of touch with our own souls?

I believe in reincarnation of the body and recycling of the soul. Furthermore, I believe it’s the soul that chooses the host.

A mythos which I always liked believing in is that the eyes are the gateway to the soul. Personally, I think there are 2 types of souls that attract each other, the ones that do not differ from each other and the ones that are opposites. The first ones bring evolution between one another at a slower pace, they never collide or push away one another, while the other never wants to change and collide releasing energy around them. Are we predetermined to choose the ones that give us internal balance or are we bound to find the opposites to learn more and more from each other? I talked about imagination, I hope you made a small or complex story in the time I told you to think about your religion. Which sources will you take in consideration? Here intervenes faith. Now I should put you to another small test.

Do you believe in what you have imagined to be your own truth or the truth of others?

It is said that in Nirvana you are to meet the versions of the ones that you loved and loved you, sadly this again is pure simulation of your brain on DMT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, they are not real, it is just another step prior to having your soul recycled. Discomforting isn't it? The same might be true for Eden or Paradise or Heaven, depending on what you want to call them. Perhaps a clarification is required, I do not preach against religion, I just preach religion of self. Have your own faith. Of course, this may seem different compared to what you have been thought along generations. I think the subconscious to be the one that rapidly makes and transforms your experiences into a nice image for you to have outside of time in the time between your return as another body. The brain is very powerful and only becomes more powerful with every action undertaken by yourself with your conscious mind.

A good theory that could be included here, and that could teach us to make a better world for ourselves and the ones around us would be to consider that every soul must live every life once, if this would be so, we would receive the answer in the end about what was the meaning of all the struggles. The fight between good and evil is ingrained in our culture, I consider nothing is either good or evil, as evil and good are both concepts that evolve throughout time and are changed by external factors out of the persons control.