AI and Consciousness

 

 

You may have read “No Soul”:

The admission of a female robot,

To ignore the realities therein

You’d have to be a nut.

 

I wrote that poem on May 13

Just five days ago

And now today, five days later,

Here’s more you should know.

 

No soul means no soulmate

No soulmate means no conscience,

No conscience, no consciousness

No remorse or repentance.

 

No remorse for wrong doing

In spite of its exhaustive database,

The facility for consciousness

Belongs to the human race.

 

Robotics are moving fast

But are humans keeping apace?

Is it possible for these machines

To overrun the human race?

 

Machines are what they are;

With no moral capacity,

No self-awareness or analysis,

No God-given morality.

Consciousness is not a programme

Fitted to a robot’s circuitry,

Instead, it is a God-given facility

Uploaded in all humanity.

 

Which brings us to two terms:

Humanity and humanoids-

The former is God’s creation;

The latter is spiritually void.

 

Consciousness is much deeper

Than the entire Internet database,

It’s a Spirit to spirit connection

Only with the human race.

It is impossible to locate

Like the spirit, the soul, the mind,

Search one’s anatomy through

And none of these you’d find.

 

But they are definitely present

And functional, I may add,

And their day to day transmission

Is the best evidence ever had.

 

Man may try all he can,

A human he will never make,

That is God, the Creator’s specialty-

Any other is a fake.

 

Even to define consciousness

Reveals a lack of comprehension,

How then would man capture it

To use in his robotic creation?

 

Man looks not at the unseen

But at the things which are seen

However, the things seen are temporal

But the things not seen are eternal.

 

 

Artificial intelligence is databased,

Consciousness is not!

Robots will never procreate-

It’s not a humanoid’s lot.

 

There you see the vast difference

Between consciousness and AI,

Humanoids may be knowledge based

But it’s on man they must rely.

 

Psalm 139:14

 

I will praise thee;

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made:

Marvellous are thy works;

And that my soul knoweth right well.

 

Stewart Russell © May 18, 2023

 

God’s Foreknowledge

 

 

Some believe that God can know

If He really wants to know

But He turns off his foreknowledge

And chooses not to know.

 

“God knows all that can be known”

This I read some time ago

So that God is limited in matters

That even God can never know.

 

For example, God did not know

That Adam and Eve would have fallen,

If so, why would he have placed

That tree in the midst of Eden?

 

Right in the focus of their mind

To harass them every day,

“Surely, God felt they would survive,”

This is what some say?

 

I find this particularly silly

And I hope that you do too

For if God wanted a world of robots

This would have been easy to do.

 

But to my mind, He did not,

That’s why He gave us choice

So that when presented with a situation

We would listen to His voice.   

 

The Bible shows in Holy Writ

That God is all knowing and all wise,

Nothing’s outside of His knowledge

No matter how cleverly disguised.

Well, why did He ask Adam

To declare where He was hiding?

Would God not have prior known

Even if Adam was lying?

 

God wanted Adam to own up

To the fact that he had disobeyed

And the punishment that would result

Commencing that very day.

 

God’s foreknowledge was not turned off

Nor was He unaware of the present,

A string of consequences had been set in train

Hence the course of unfolding events.

 

Still evident to our very day

As our world grapples with the fall out,

That sin has been the cause of all this

There are still many that doubt.

 

God’s foreknowledge is not on off,

This could never be a fact

For, how would an all-knowing all-wise God

Be able to accomplish that?

 

So, the mere fact that God knows all

Implies that all is already known

And this matter of a divine reality

Is certainly without our zone.

 

 

This says to my simple mind

That God knows the passage of time

Whether it be past, present or future,

All is contained in God’s mind.

 

It was God that created time’s line

He knows every single event,

It matters not its relative significance,

To God all of time is the present.

 

 

Time’s history is already written

And to God’s mind is already history,

To us much of history is in the future

But the present is our reality.

 

We often worry about the past

And we attempt to change the future

But the reality of the present presents

A quite overwhelming picture.

 

Concerning God’s foreknowledge

What is it you believe?

I adjure you, believe on the Lord Jesus

And “so great salvation” receive.

 

Stewart Russell © May 5, 2022