In a related report by the Inquisitr, Stephen Hawking fears the Terminator movies may actually come true, but to this day, the “lowly” human brain still beats out supercomputers on multiple fronts. Louis Del Monte, the author of The Artificial Intelligence Revolution, also believes an AI singularity event will occur by 2045, but so far, computer AI can’t even pass the Turing test.
In most religions, the totality of being human is divided into three parts; mind, soul, and body. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and other religions typically equate the mind to the physical human brain, which works in conjunction with an immaterial human soul. What has had philosophers and scientists arguing for thousands of years is exactly how this process functions from a mechanical viewpoint. When it comes to the philosophy of the mind, dualism and physicalism have competed for the beliefs of scientists, with the latter claiming that all which exists in our world, including consciousness, is physical.
On the side of physicalism, some scientists claim the soul or consciousness can be reduced to mere computations conducted within the neural networks in the human brain, which means all consciousness can be explained by algorithms. Other scientists believe believe that quantum processes attributed to the human soul work in partnership with the observable neurological processes to produce the experience of human consciousness, although one is not completely dependent on the other to function. Essentially, these scientists claim the human brain is a quantum computer, and the informational state of qubits are influenced by the human soul.
One such scientist is Stuart Hameroff, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. He and Sir Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist at the Mathematical Institute and Wadham College and University of Oxford, believe overall brain function derives from quantum level microtubule vibrations.
“The origin of consciousness reflects our place in the universe, the nature of our existence. Did consciousness evolve from complex computations among brain neurons, as most scientists assert? Or has consciousness, in some sense, been here all along, as spiritual approaches maintain?” ask Hameroff and Penrose in the current review, according to Science Daily. “This opens a potential Pandora’s Box, but our theory accommodates both these views… Ref. Quantum Physics.
The spiritual self has a direct and continuous connection with the spiritual dimension. People of faith might put it that each person’s ‘soul’ communicates with a divine spirit, even with the Holy Spirit of God. Either way, the spiritual self (or soul) is to be thought of as personal, and the spiritual dimension (or Holy Spirit) is universal. Soul has an independent quality. Spirit is what holds things together.
A good analogy is to think of the two being connected like a personal computer to the internet. Everyone has a soul-setting on their computer, we could say, and everyone’s computer is linked through that setting to the world-wide (or universe-wide) spiritual web. We may have direct computer to computer links to some other people (family, friends, colleagues and so on), but we are also linked to everyone else—at a very deep level—via our individual connections to the spiritual internet super-computer.
Because this super-computer is linked directly to everything in the cosmos, as well as to everyone, each person is similarly and seamlessly linked to the dynamic whole, to nature as well as humanity. This, from the spiritual perspective, is the source of life’s sacred meaning. It connects each individual to a collective destiny.
Most of the time, we only use our computers on the ‘everyday-setting’, for habitual activities and relationships. We do not normally pay attention to the ‘soul-setting’. We may not even be aware it exists, until or unless we engage regularly in spiritual practices, or until ‘something happens’ to wake us up.
Even then, we may ignore, play it down or deny it. We may, as it were, get a message on our personal computer that comes directly, via the soul-setting, from the spiritual internet’s wisdom source– the source that knows everything about everything, because it’s plugged into everything. We can delete these messages, which may seem inconvenient, but they keep on returning in one form or another, often in different guises (as in a dream, or an unforeseen change of fortune) until we are forced to give them the attention they deserve.
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