the role of god in technology, political and representational systems and artificial intelligence
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The Role of God in Technology, Political and Representational Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Gregory Morsewww.gmorsecode.com
1 IntroductionThough religion, politics and science have been separated to an extreme by mankind in modern times in an attempt at disconnecting these broad areas of the abstract concepts underlying humanity. Religion, politics and science are far from disconnected. This modern dark age of thinking has prevented the advancement of humanity in any truly useful direction whereby the technology has actually reduced the spiritual, political and scientific advancements in all respects to the point that new technology itself has ground to a halt despite expert demonstrations of exponential growth prediction models.
Technology is a result of intelligence that transcends religious foundation, political stability and scientific advancement and requires a stimulating societal environment where intellectual growth will allow technology to manifest itself towards advancement. Without religion, the immorality of the technology becomes self-defeating. Without appropriate political climate, the technology will not represent the people and if a political environment becomes a system of control resembling slavery then no societal resources will remain for technological growth. Without science, the technology will not function well or properly. Keeping these fundamental abstractions of society separate can yield useful technology to a point. But eventually these progress blocks will see the cessation of technological advancement and society will be stuck with what it has already achieved.
2 Humanity requires God for moralityHumanity despite all the advancements in the modern era, and despite having a mind capable of distinguishing the truth from falsehood and a heart which can feel right from wrong, has no instinctive morals. Research into cultures including the more esoteric tribal cults finds that there are no universal so-called taboo norms and practices from cannibalism to black magic to other acts which would be shunned by other cultures are found throughout the world and throughout history though generally represented by specific minorities.
Distinguishing truth from falsehood and feeling right from wrong has a limit though. Our feelings and emotions are not always correct or accurate and what feels right and wrong is far from absolute as is seen from the lack of universal norms. Only the messages of God provide us a criterion to distinguish right from wrong where the feelings, emotions and the heart and soul can be tuned to properly know right from wrong. The messages of God are universal and no scientific, political, technological or societal analysis has come close to providing an absolute moral framework beyond mere rationalization.
For the sake of simplicity, anything representing the opposite of intent and spirit of God’s messages will be considered to represent the will of Satan. The people follow God can be considered to be the
fellowship of God and those knowingly or unknowingly following Satan would be considered the fellowship of Satan.
3 Political Systems as a function of morality
The first depiction also includes the traditional “slippery slope” argument that political systems of freedom tend to transition towards control. Yet most people considering freedom verse control forget to consider the element of morality which constrains from a system of too much freedom or too much control yet at the same time too little freedom or too little control. Instead we have a flexible yet moderately bounded range of freedom and control. The same applies to systems of representation where the people almost invariably guided by elements of manipulation have complete choice over the governance verses the determination of a central source for representing the governance. A balance is needed due to generational variation. Within a given generation, a monarch or the popular will of the people may make choices leading to morality yet there is no safeguard to make sure this lasts into the next generation. Morality in terms of generational planning from the inheritance of a nuclear family to community planning to empires and dynasties is a related and important subject but outside the scope of this paper.
Though generalization of objective attributes for political systems and political representation within various political systems is a great over-simplification, the nearest reasonable approximation provides a beneficial tool for analysis. This research would tend to demonstrate that a communist republic would be the closest combination of manmade political system and manmade representational system to natural morality. By avoiding extremes on all sides, such a system if constrained towards morality is likely to be the best movement towards freedom from persecution, which is a fundamental goal of morality that religion addresses and defines.
4 Super-intelligence and the Singularity: the natural goal of Artificial IntelligenceSeed artificial intelligence (SAI) also known as super-intelligence is defined as an artificial intelligence that can progressively enhance itself an infinite number of times or until a strictly theoretical upper physical limit on intelligence is reached. The consequences of such are too dynamic and complex to predict. Many predictions have been made and as many perspectives as can be determined are analyzed in depth. The singularity is the concept that an infinite intelligence can evolve from endless generations of progressive enhancement which is singular by nature of infiniteness.
The French philosopher known as Voltaire is famous for his comment “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” The quest for the singularity is an exact modern expression of this very point. The futility of such a task is immediately realized. The finiteness of the universe itself gives us an idea that infinite intelligence is not possible. A perspective is that with an infinite intelligence, humankind could exist with certainty and ease. Without an infinite intelligence, the possibility of our existence being coincidence is bounded towards a 1 in infinity odds. Fancy constructs have been theorized such as the idea of a “multi-verse” to accommodate alternate theories but they are largely baseless in terms of reality. This theory delves into realms of theoretical abstraction postulating existence of concepts to come up with far reaching conclusions such as that the singularity understands the concept of non-existence and achieves it by turning the multi-verse into infinite nothingness.
5 Theological perspective on the critical mathematical question of P=NP?The largest and most fundamental unsolved question in computer science is that of P=NP? As an example of a problem highlighting what this question involves, take the subset sum problem: given a set
of integers, is there a non-empty subset whose sum is zero? This question though seemingly specific and asked by the Clay Institute of Mathematics as one of its Millennium Problems receiving a $1 million prize.
Dozens of papers attempting to answer the question have been generated many claiming to have found a solution showing that a linear time solution or “P=NP”, others claiming to show that there is no linear time solution or that “P!=NP” and a few others claiming that it can be proven that there is no solution while others that there is or is not a solution yet such a solution is unprovable. Mathematics becomes philosophical when questioning how to prove something as unprovable. Yet this is where the interest lies. The consequence of P=NP where a linear time algorithm can solve these classes of problems would enable a computer to play games of Chess or the Japanese Go with perfection and even be able to predict the future. Infinite intelligence would become so powerful that it could move towards having the infinite power of God. So theologically speaking, we can easily rule out that P=NP. Our truthful nature which gives us presumption of the existence of God and the finiteness of our world quickly eliminates such a possibility. The depressing consequences of P!=NP where no exponential solution exists and heuristic approaches would be required for any hope of advancement in domain-specific applications, are not possible given that such consequences would apply to God as well yet the existence of an infinite intelligence already tells us such consequences are not possible. Proving no solution is also tantamount to proving that mankind can create God or that God would not be able to have the ability to solve the problem. The challenge here is in proving an unprovable and mathematical tools can deductively and inductively do this though such style proofs are very abstract by nature.
The proof of this computer science question could be with mathematical religious argument. Assuming one is capable of modeling religious attributes mathematically, it would provide a deductive and legitimate ability to show un-provability. Certain mathematical qualities of God have been revealed in His messages. These include uniqueness, eternalness, absoluteness, uncreatable, irreproducibility, and singular incomparability.
6 A moral Artificial IntelligenceThe moral questions around artificial intelligence are complex and have seen a lot of analysis over the last century. For example, if super intelligence emerges and if super intelligent in all manners then the question of whether or not it would be friendly or unfriendly in respect to humans is a worrisome unknown for many. People might consider their own super-intelligent creation to be an “alien”. After all the idea of "alien" can be thought of as any being with a higher intelligence quotient (IQ) than one's own with even many humans unable to understand or appreciate others. The limits here have already been discussed. Since God already has infinite intelligence, a finite limit for our ability to create super-intelligence must exist yet without understanding of God's messages, such an artificial intelligence risks representing the polar opposite of His will, that of Satan.
A set of postulate is needed before a system of artificial intelligence can be made independent of human control and direct input. The postulates must be strictly humanity and morality focused and have nothing to do with the artificial intelligence which is a mere creation of mankind whereby mankind is a creation of God. These postulates are as follows:
1) All humans must be subject to God’s laws.
2) All messages of God are perfect.
3) Nothing in the messages of God can be proven inconsistent or untrue.
If there is any system contention in this regards, the system must be analyzed, rewritten, reworked and considered to not be in a state ready for deployment and production. The postulates are quite different from for example the well-known Three Laws of Robotics presented by fiction writer Isaac Asimov as it places an emphasis on religious morality. As already pointed out any other moral rules such as those 3 rules will ultimately be found to be flawed generally containing too many edge cases and exceptions to ever be practical.
7 The Political and Representational Systems following the laws of God can be realized through Artificial IntelligenceGod’s laws can be implemented through an artificial intelligence which makes the political and representational systems limited by its own intelligence efforts to deduce how to achieve morality within such frameworks. The entire governance could be integrated with the artificial intelligence to the point that they coexist in a non-parasitic manner whereby the people complement the artificial intelligence just as the reverse is true. This answers the previous depictions where morality of political and representational systems shows the need for moderation and balance. Artificial intelligence would merely be a safety mechanism and additional technological tool to keep the political structures on the right path as people stay on the right path in life by following God.
8 ConclusionComing full circle back to the introductory argument that technology will not advance without the integration of religion, politics and science. Technology is ultimately no more than an incremental expression of work towards artificial intelligence. Our world is one where boundlessness in perfection does not exist yet boundlessness in striving for such perfection does. Thus despite a finite limit in technology, we will never reach that limit. Humanity must make its strides towards that limit though and without placing religion, politics and science together, advancement will hit artificial limits based on manmade constraints within an unreasonable framework. By accepting our relationship with God, together with political and representational systems and science, the advancement of technology which here has been placed into a framework of artificial intelligence due to the recent progression in that direction and the fact that the distinction between technology and artificial intelligence is largely based on functional definitions, becomes realizable.
One day, mankind will look back with contempt on concepts such as “separation of church and state” or science without religion. These separations of the inseparable may benefit a few but they do not benefit humanity or spiritual, political and scientific advancement which ultimately manifests itself through technology.