What Are Machines Thinking?

“In 2045, or 2056, or 3000, do you know what’s going to happen? Nothing. Machines will still be machines, doing what they always do. Yes, a mile-wide computer in the desert may be able to perform more operations than a toaster in a motel in Cincinnati, but the level of consciousness in both machines is identical. Zero.” J Rappoport

MachineThinking“…one scenario is that the machines will seek to turn humans into cyborgs. This is nearly happening now, replacing faulty limbs with artificial parts.”

“The concern I’m raising is that the machines will view us as an unpredictable and dangerous species.”

“[Machines] might view us the same way we view harmful insects.”

“Del Monte believes machines will become self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves.”

These aren’t quotes from some absurdist satirical play designed to expose human stupidity.

They’re quotes tendered by physicist, Louis Del Monte, the author of The Artificial Intelligence Revolution, from an interview with Dylan Love at Business Insider.

The key to Del Monte’s approach is quote number one: machines might decide to turn humans into cyborgs and it’s already happening in the area of artificial limbs.

What? Excuse me, but humans are deciding to put those limbs on other humans. Machines aren’t.

And even in some hospital of the future, if you had AI androids “making all the surgical decisions,” they wouldn’t actually be choosing anything. They’d be programmed by humans.

Why is this so hard for technocrats to understand? Because they infuse themselves with a mystical vision about artificial intelligence.

They confuse operational capability with consciousness. Continue reading

What To Make Of It All?

Shift Frequency Highlights  August 3 2013

Contrary to appearances, the human species is neither crazy nor headed for oblivion. We are evolving, and doing so with great rapidity.

The Whole in which we live, move, and have being is sentient. It exists beyondas well as within sparks of awareness embedded within materiality. Its goal is to evolve and expand and experience its Self in myriad creations. To do so it relies on particles of sentience implanted within a vast plane of creative potential. While comparatively little is known or understood concerning the degree of sentience held within dolphins, whales, crows and plants (e.g.),  the human species appears to be the one that has been granted  the greatest opportunity to express individuality through creativity, imagination, self-awareness, and emotion.

But there is a conundrum to solve. It consists of the degree to which true individuality is allowed “presence” within the planetary Whole — the degree to which each individual has personally evolved and is able to exert sufficient freewill choice to clamber out of the muck and mire of dysfunctional social programming.

Dysfunctional Social Programming

Where did this come from? It certainly isn’t random. It appears that for eons certain individuals and families set themselves apart from what they derisively call the  “human herd” and declared themselves “rulers” and/or “masters of The Game.”

These have instilled rules of engagement designed to insure humanity’s experienced reality emerged within boundaries they controlled. These planetary rulers have seemingly succumbed en masse to a Luciferian complex of supreme narcissism in which life in its entirety has been designed for their singular enjoyment. Humanity – beyond a certain controllable number – are as vermin to them, and, like vermin, are to be exterminated.

For millennia the methods of extermination were limited to war and plague. Now these have expanded to include the exotic and devious:

  • manipulated food supplies
  • fascist governments
  • corrupt legal systems
  • Big Pharma concoctions
  • controlled, closed monetary (energy) systems
  • healthcare driven by finance to devastating consequence
  • a chemtrailed atmosphere raining poison on rivers, oceans, streams, farmland, forest – the entire Earth!

So here we find ourselves – individuals with the impetus to evolve – being forced to confront a controller class desirous of sinking all individuality (except theirs) into mind traps of controlled “group think.”

How Far Past Enough Is “Enough!”

These controllers are cancerous growths in humanity’s soul. And, like cancer, are perfectly willing to consume the host.

Thankfully our sentient, alive Earth has other ideas. These tiny mutant cells of power-lust, domination and control housed within her Being can neither out-maneuver nor control the greater Whole in which Earth lives, moves, and has Being.  She has solar system and greater universal forces at her disposal – frequencies outside the “controllers” grid. These greater forces are alive in the heavens and on Earth right now. Solar flares, comets whizzing by, grand trine formations, alteration of time dynamics, shifting poles – all operate in synchronicity to awaken the Logos asleep in the heart of humanity.

Look around you. Look past the illusion. This awakening is happening.

Now.

© 2013 Gillian Grannum