Category: Science

Can an intelligent machine be dangerous?

In a [2001] interview, Stephen Hawking warned that if humans do not genetically re-engineer their intelligence level, computers would take over the earth. According to Hawking, a system must be found that allows the human brain to be directly connected to a computer so that the artificial brain contributes to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Here are my objections: There will never be a spontaneous opposition or threat engendered by a machine because, a priori, the machine has no motivation. Intelligence not linked to life remains a tool, and … Read More

Musing about Evolution

~Evolution: suffering that didn’t kill.

~In evolution there is no progress but adaptation.

~First, words appeared to describe events. Then words became events themselves. Each thing that comes to serve other goals becomes a goal in itself. Is this evolution?

~Evolution: art of adapting to a hell of the non-adapted.

~Evolution sculpts masterpieces in the living flesh of perishable creature.

~The path of evolution is as covered with corpses as the way of revolution.

…synchronicity

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There are basically two kinds of synchronicity: one not accepted by everybody, the second one seemingly proven in labs. The first, accepted by Jung, links synchronicity to premonition. The second one, apparently observed in laboratories, then physical, may represent manifestation of a quantum leap through distance. Apparently when an animal learns something in one laboratory it may be transmitted to other animals at the other end of the world. How can a tendency jump through space? Where/what is the bridge? Why does ‘simili similibus’ attract? As for karma, … Read More