Philosophical questions and answers.
1 . What's the meaning of life its purpose and for Human existence.
2 . What separates The Human Species from Animals.
3 . Why an individual life form Dies.
4 . The Human Mind.
5 . The foundation of our knowledge what do we really know.
6 . The Reproductive Imperative.
7 . Isn't it better just to believe in God.
8 . Is life really a good thing.
9 . Is Jesus the Messiah.
10 . Diet and cooked Food.
11 . Difference between Artificial and Natural Intelligence.
12 . Conscience.
13 . Defining Freedom.
14 . Are human beings better than other species.
15 . Space - The now point in time.
1 . What's the meaning of life its purpose and for Human existence ?.
The earth was created some 4.55 billion years ago together with the rest of the solar system.
Life existed on earth at least 3.55 billion years ago as bacteria.
There has always been a debate about the emergence of life, the chemicals that are needed can be created but putting them together in the right and a life sustainable order is an almost impossible thing to imagine happening.
The universe can be considered infinite and therefore the chemistry of life guaranteed to be created and to come together in the right order somewhere, but, as this planet at its creation would have been an extremely inhospitable place for the chemistry of life, even if it existed, to come together in the right order it is hard to imagine this happening in the early period of its existence.
Perhaps life here came from somewhere else in the universe?
There is perhaps a cycle of life that means that eventually simple life becomes self aware and able to comprehend its environment, detect other inhabitable worlds, create the technology to escape the planet on which it evolved, and even create the correct creatures in the form of bacteria to manage a journey of thousands of years to another place on which it can thrive and itself potentially evolve to become self aware, and begin the cycle of life once more.
All life tries to maximise its habitation of the environment in which it finds itself.
The purpose of all living things is to maximise their population using whatever environment is available. Life forms adapt to changes in the environment and support other species of life in the quest to achieve the maximisation of the population of all living organisms.
The Human species is part of one living entity that survives on this planet, made up as it is of all the life forms that inhabit it; each species of life relies for its survival on all others and so achieve the best outcome for the collective existence of life.
A species such as the human one may be the mechanism that life uses to propagate itself throughout the universe; its role is potentially to propel the basis of life from the surface of this planet to other habitable worlds where it can thrive.
This does not mean the human species will make the journey the distances and time scales are far to great for such a venture, it is life such as bacteria that it is our responsibility to send to other worlds and so further maximise the habitation by life of new environments beyond this one, life could have arrived, in our solar system from just such a journey having been sent by other technologically evolved life forms.
Life exists because the laws of probability mean that it is guaranteed to?
Estimates put the number of earth-sized planets in our galaxy at seventeen billion and it is believed there are billions of galaxies and an almost limitless amount of time for the creation of life somewhere in one of the galaxies on one of the planets.
Assuming that life is universally made of the chemicals that we have detected, it is impossible for simple life not to evolve somewhere, given that from the laws of probability and permutation there is a virtually an infinite number of chances that it will.
Life may exist throughout the universe but that does not mean that it evolved in multiple places just by chance.
The understanding of the environment and the technology that the human species has developed has very nearly put it in a position to send simple life forms to other worlds.
Other creatures on other planets billions of years ago may have reached the same intellectual understanding of their environment as the human species and to preserve the existence of life launched it into space and so to other worlds, this matches the natural cycle of life, as we know it with birth and death, a planet is born, life moves to it and creates a home and evolves to the point where it can repeat the process before the planet eventually dies.
The reason for human existence then is potentially the preservation of all life by sending it to other worlds.
All things come from dust and ultimately will become dust again.
The imperative for survival that life has is the thing that has maintained its existence on this planet and driven it to its current evolutionary state and this will determine the future path that humans as a species will eventually be induced to follow.
The intelligence that is naturally built into the philosophy that drives reproductive natural selection is far stronger than the human intellect or any machine it may devise and will always be able to direct life in a direction best fitted for its long-term survival.
It is the most intellectually advanced creature in the form of the human that is really the servant of the least intellectually advanced in the form of simple bacteria, as a species we potentially will enable its survival over that of our own.
The human species has moved from evolution by reproductive natural selection to evolution by intellect, bacteria cannot achieve evolution by intellect but only by reproductive natural selection but can easily challenge us and ultimately win any battle we wage against them if we are so ignorant as to think them an enemy.
The technology, philosophy and a pointless self-indulgent lifestyle of the human species is of no importance if it is not used for the preservation of all life and ultimately the species will not survive if it believes it can exploit other species of life without contributing to the well being of life's universal existence on this planet and beyond.
2 . What separates The Human Species from Animals.
The Human Species has a highly evolved intellect. One of the difference between an intellectually and a non-intellectually evolve species of creature is partly in the way that the brain, if it needs one, operates in cooperation with its body.
In a non-intellectually developed creature the brain is mainly there to enable the body of the creature to exist, survive, reproduce the next generation and so enable its body to evolve.
In an intellectually evolved animal the role of the body is to serve the brain and provide it with stimulation and enjoyment, maintain its life and so enable the intellect to evolve.
The body, of an animal with intellect, does not have to adapt to a changing environment, in the same way, as does that of a non-intellectual creature whose body has to evolve, and survive changes in habitat through natural selection.
The human species has the ability to adapt to its surroundings quickly and through the evolution of its intellect via education and remembered experiences, cope with changes to its habitat.
In the case of the human species the intellectual evolutionary process manifests itself in the form of linking members of the human species by enabling individual minds to communicate first taking the form of speech and the development of aural language, then that of a written version of the aural language first hand written, then printed and finally linking all human intellects almost instantaneously via internet technologies.
The four developments in communication technologies are synonymous with parallel step changes in the development of human culture and scientific and technological progress. The ability to share ideas and experiences with each other as a species has enabled humans to develop increasingly more sophisticated technologies to cope with perceived environmental change.
3 . Why an individual life form Dies.
The period of time over which a life form is born, reproduces itself and dies, varies depending on species, reproducing themselves creatures may incur modifications to their DNA structure resulting in an improvement in their ability to exist in an environment. If a life form is successful then through the process of natural selection DNA modifications will be passed on through successive generations making survival of the species more likely.
If a species of creature has an average life span that is to long then its ability to adapt to changing environmental needs is reduced, the period from birth to death is critical in enabling it to adapt to its habitat and changes that may occur in it. A species of life through the mechanism of natural selection has to optimise its average life span to balance the need to raise the next generation against the need to optimise its ability to respond to environmental changes, average lifespan therefore varies from one life form to another enabling a creature to change through the process of natural selection to best cope with long term changes in habitat.
If a life form were not to die from natural causes brought on by the death and miss copying of cell structures, then eventually the whole species of animal of which the life form was a part would die out as the result of environmental change and the life forms inability to adapt and cope with it.
4 . The Human Mind
The human mind exists to assist individuals of the human species to complete their cycle of reproductive natural selection. The process of evolutionary development that all living things experience both individually and collectively is itself a form of intelligence. Intelligence within living things can therefore be divided into two types Strategic and Tactical.
Strategic intelligence amounts to the evolutionary path that life takes as the result of reproductive natural selection.
Tactical intelligence enables individual life forms to exist and survive within an environment so that they can contribute their strategic role in the evolutionary development of their own and all other species of life.
The Tactical version of natural intelligence comprises two distinct types.
First there is the intelligence that a creature is born with and enables its initial basic survival. This first type of Tactical intelligence depends on the fact that certain elements within the environment of a life form don't change or at least change very slowly over many millennia rather than minutes, hour or days. Things that don't perhaps change are perhaps gravity, water, air and perhaps for many life forms food supply and of course the internal operation of a life form in perhaps the form of heart, lungs and kidneys etc.
Second there is the intelligence type that is acquired and requires that a creature can store learned data this type is perhaps used to avoid predators locate food and shelter etc. Intelligence by learning is in most creatures acquired by chance or by having the ability to copy the actions of other creatures.
Most creatures evolve to have some form of intelligence, if they need it, to enable them to preserve their body against predators hunger and their environment in general. The human species perhaps uniquely within all the diverse life forms has a body that now supports the requirements of the brain and its intelligence, rather than the brain existing to support the existence of the body.
Strategic intelligence may act very slowly possibly over millennia, the life span of a
creature determines the rate at which Strategic intelligence acts, species with a
short lifespan having greater strategic intelligence than those with longer ones. In
this context the human lifespan makes us less intelligent than simpler life forms such
as bacteria and viruses, some with short life spans and reproductive cycles, compete
with us very successfully by evolving via reproductive natural selection to combat our
use of drugs to combat them.
5 . The foundation of our knowledge what do we really know.
Inanimate objects stone, metal and chemicals exist and are real and exist now have
existed an instant before now in some form and will exist an instant after now, and so
will always have a future and a past that is predicable and true but that a living
thing can only perceive as existing now.
Each thing that lives must have enough knowledge of its environment that it has
evolved in to enable its existence within it to be successful.
Living creatures without memory have no concept of past or of future and live their
existence just to survive now as a life form and will not always have a past the
instant before now, exist now, but may not exist the instant after now.
Creatures with memory can have a concept of past and future can comprehend that
something is or is not true and can believe they have knowledge.
Creatures with memory but without the ability of a complex means to describe their
perceived thoughts do not know they will die creatures with memory and means to
describe their perceived thoughts know that they will.
With means to describe perceived thoughts doubt and debate can arise about the
validity of perceived truth, perhaps the most important one of these truths is that
every living thing dies.
The concept that the existence of intellect must end is important when the life form
involved evolves from the point where its mind is designed to preserve the life of the
living creature as a whole to the point where it is there for the preservation of the
creature's perceived self-intellect. A creature whose evolution reaches this point has
an intellect that knows one day it will cease to exist while at the same time
believing this to be impossible.
For a thing that lives, knowledge can only be a total certainty now all other
knowledge is speculation.
It is not possible to know what was true before now or will be true after now because
a living thing cannot exist in either place and can only use memory to believe that it
might have been true and its imagination to surmise that it will be true.
This reasoning might seem pedantic but leads us to the beliefs about where life has
come from and where it is going. The only certain fact that a member of a species
knows is that it exists now all other beliefs are just speculation.
It is pure speculation to believe that humans were or were not created in the image of
a god or that their souls may go to heaven or to hell when they die or indeed that as
a species we evolved from monkeys and we may discuss argue and debate this but because
nothing exists outside of the present it is impossible to prove either true or false
with complete certainty, anything we believe is only a certainty now and a truth now.
What an individual life form believes to be true now will be true for that creature at
that time but may not be true in the future and may not have been true in the past.
For a living thing whatever knowledge it perceives to exist now to be true or false
may not before now or after now be so.
It is only when intellect is removed from speculation about knowledge of what may be
the future or may have been the past that certainty about the truth of knowledge can
exist and this is clearly impossible except at a present point in time.
Knowledge is not what we know or about the truth of what we know but what we think we
know and what we believe to be true.
6 . The Reproductive Imperative.
The only purpose of gender difference is the reproduction of a species and this is
potentially the only important thing that any individual life form within a species
does.
Manifestations of the Reproductive Imperative through pornography, same gender
relationships or even a relationship involving contraception but still between male
and female are in the context of its intended evolutionary purpose not really part of
the Reproductive Imperative.
The Reproductive Imperative however defined is part of the psychological makeup of an
individual of a species, which exists outside the sphere of the day-to-day thought
process.
Alongside the day-to-day perception of existence is also a parallel one designed to
enable survival in a hostile world. This process comes into action where there is
fear, horror, and anger etc and also as part of this survival strategy species
reproduction, this strategy from past evolution means that unless interrupted by one
of the other survival requirements the male of the species is subconsciously
continuously aware of the Reproductive Imperative in an environment.
The need for species reproduction and parts of the body related to it are often
referred to in the form of words that are not only used in the context of this but
also in the context of the other survival methodologies. Therefore words associated
with the Reproductive Imperative are used when dealing with fear, horror or anger.
The Reproductive Imperative is part of a primitive survival strategy and ranks
alongside fear, horror and anger in this context.
For the human species there are now far fewer threats from a hostile world than
experienced its evolutionary past but the Reproductive Imperative perhaps driven by
modern communication media and popular modern culture exists probably to a greater
extent now than it ever did.
The female of the human species is thought able to multitask better than the male this
is perhaps because there is not the same level of need for including The Reproductive
Imperative within the survival strategy list and the female role can be more passive
than the male in this regard enabling other thoughts to be entertained in their place.
Falling in love is part of the human species survival strategy designed to enable the
creation and the raising of the next generation of the species. In its intended form
love can create a strong bond between the male and female of our species enabling
successful procreation. Eventually love perhaps has to evolve to becoming friendship
this enables cooperation within whatever environment humans have to live their lives.
If love cannot evolve to friendship then cooperation within our environment fails and
usually the relationship fails, resulting in a search for new love and friendship
opportunities.
The role of having a male and female of a species or indeed any form of reproductive
system for living things is to enable the evolution of a species via the process of
DNA modification.
Changes in environment however they occur whether they are global or regional,
intellectual or physical mean that life forms of whatever type must change to survive
within the conditions of the environment within which they find themselves.
Species reproduction enables the long-term change of the characteristics of a species
to fit with a changing environment, it is a form of intelligence over which, in the
scale of the millennia within which it occurs, we have very little if any conscious
ability to control. The birth, life, reproductive imperative and death of an
individual of a species amounts to and enables a form of intelligent adaptation to an
environment, human species based on a species of monkey has evolved in this manner to
be where it is today as have all living things.
> > > Isn't it better just to believe in God < < <
The French philosopher Pascal argued that it was prudent to believe in God because if
God does exist, then you might win eternal heaven. If he does not, you have just
wasted Sundays going to confession – not too much of a burden. But if you don't
believe in him and he does exist, then think of the eternal torture you will suffer.
Most humans feel that they are part of something external to themselves this feeling
has manifested itself in all human societies throughout history and we are no
different as humans now in this respect than we were in our historical past. The
feeling that we are a part of something greater than ourselves probably stems from an
unconscious realisation that we are in some way connected to all the life and the
environment that surrounds us and supports our existence.
Religion and God are separate elements each used as an excuse for the existence of the
other.
Religion amounts to the propagation of rules devised by humans ignorant of most of the
scientific knowledge that we take for granted today. Religious organisations have
rules contrived to control, educate and comfort an often hungry and frightened human
population unable to understand the threats to it from its environment and searching
for a means to explain the purpose of individual lives while being aware of their
eventual end.
In the recent history of the human species, changes have not been evolutionary but
technological, and so have not been physical but more physiological in nature and
comprise the accumulation of knowledge and its interpretation, this knowledge and the
way it has altered our understanding of the world has made the concept of god as
defined by the religions, appear to have a very shallow foundation.
Throughout history things have been done by humans to harm life of all types, both
physically and psychologically, it is probable, however that this harm would have been
far greater and more widespread without the existence of the philosophies described in
the various religious texts. Although a belief in god is now becoming hard to justify
the philosophies of texts from the past, inspired by a perceived existence of god, can
still be a source of information as to how the human species should behave, we should
always be aware however that the texts were written in more primitive times and cannot
always reflect the context in which humans now live, with each other and their
environment.
Perhaps one of the greatest dogmas of religion is that human life forms are in some
way intellectually superior and therefore special when compared to other forms of
life, the human species shares its existence equally with all others. God as defined
by the religions may now need to be replaced by the World defined by science.
On this earth upon which humans must live with each other and survive with all other
life forms there have to be rules that enable us to exist with each other and with all
other forms of life, in harmony.
Religious dogmatic assumptions about the importance of the human species over all
other species of life need to be reviewed and amended or replaced with ones reflecting
the knowledge we now have of all the living things that we share existence with.
> > > Is there Life after Death < < <
With many things that the human species believes to be true it is not the truth that
matters but it is just a belief that it is true, this within the confines of the
religions constitutes faith, and is particularly true with the belief of life after
death.
The human mind by instinct will always believe it cannot die and yet unlike other
creatures knows that it will, most or the religious and spiritual beliefs of life
existing after death within our species probably arise from this fact. Many of the
myths legends and religious dogmas with which humans populate their imagination have
their roots in the belief that the life of the human intellect cannot end in the death
of the body of which it is part.
> > > Is life really a good thing < < <
Life began on this planet at least 3.55 billion years ago as bacteria and the human
life form and all others have evolved since that time from it, therefore we can
conclude that all life has a common ancestry.
The human species is of no greater importance than any other; without the application
of intelligence we would be one of the most vulnerable species on the planet. It is
only by the education of each individual, by family and parent and in later
technologically dependant societies by the state, society and religion that we have
survived and exist in the way that we do. Our genetic makeup has effectively been
reinforced by culture and education made possible by our unique ability to communicate
with language.
The human belief in its own importance among animal species should not be
misunderstood as a reason to believe we are better than other creatures but only that
our place in the collection of living organisms is one that we can use to improve or
make worse the existence of everything. On the scale of the evolution of all life,
humans have existed for a very short period of time and have a very short period of
time to do what they must do or disappear as the result of collective stupidity or one
of the major natural disasters that are statistically guaranteed to befall the world
over the millennia to come.
Pain both psychological and physical that we and other forms of life in general may
experience in their existence, although to be avoided whenever possible, is a
mechanism designed for the survival of life and should not be confused with the idea
that it is in some way an unnatural or even bad thing to be experienced.
The human life form and all others living on this planet are striving unconsciously if
they are not doing so consciously to achieve the most painless course of existence for
themselves and hence for all life in general. The absence of pain within this scenario
denotes success, the existence of pain denotes failure and the need for the creature
experiencing it to adapt to survive, and hence maximise life's mastery of every
environment available for habitation.
Every life form exists to support all other life forms and is part of one living
existence and as humans we cannot dislike any living thing without disliking part of
what we are.
If we fear or dislike a species of life, it is not that species of life that is at
fault but our perception of it, grounded in a narrow, dogmatic, human centric grasp of
why individual living things exist and not accepting that we are here to support other
lives with our own.
Life is neither good nor bad it just exists, and, the way it exists is due to the path
that evolution has made it follow, each generation of whatever species knows that life
must continue, humans alone among species may be able to argue that it is pointless,
however, individual or collective human opinion is of no importance in the long term
evolutionary process of living things. Humans may potentially have an important role
to play in the survival of life on and beyond this planet, however if we fail in our
role other life forms, over the millennia to come will evolve to replace us and so
carry out tasks that could and should have been ours, so enabling life to continue its
existence for ever.
> > > Is Jesus the Messiah < < <
The definition of the Messiah as defined by religious institutions is in reality so
convoluted that meeting all the conditions defined are impossible to achieve, but as
religions and the people controlling them, created the definitions then this is
perhaps understandable. A Messiah would be an immediate challenge to religious
leaders, replace them, and cause them to lose the material benefits that ensue from
leadership.
We need with the advent of modern scientific knowledge to revaluate the teaching of
Jesus and his relationship with god to enable us to perhaps better understand the
messages he was trying to convey.
Jesus was perhaps the greatest philosopher of his or any age and his philosophy unlike
so many of the self proclaimed philosophers that went before and have come after him
was complex but simply expressed in a way that every one could understand and relate
to. Its message of loving an enemy from a time when a Roman army occupied
Israel is one of the greatest lessons that need's to be taken from what are the most
perfect and unbiased renditions of how humans need to behave towards each other.
Taking only what we need from the world and each other and returning to the world and
everyone everything that we can afford to do and more, is perhaps the other great part
of the message.
There are many things contained within the ideas put forward by Jesus that are often
reinterpreted by the religions who also tend to add elements of religion taken from
the religious sources that have no place in the teachings of Jesus but just happen to
fit with the agenda of leaders, both religious and non religious. In so many ways
Jesus was the first modern thinker trying to grasp who god was and the human place in
the world in relationship to the rest of creation. In a time without modern science,
the revolutionary thoughts put forward by this guy are nothing short of a person whose
ideas are the most important and influential in the development of human intellectual
thought certainly throughout the western world.
Sometimes ideas can be beautiful to comprehend and the ideas expressed by Jesus are
ideas that are just that, none of us would live as we do now without them.
The conditions of the old definition of Messiah can never be met in the modern world
and that is definitely a good thing, but the ideas expressed by Jesus lead the
intellectual thought of civilised people today throughout the world, as they have for
two thousand years. Although we are perhaps unable any more to think ourselves the
children of god the educated intellect of our species and its modern civilization is
perhaps partly able to think itself the child of Jesus.
> > > Diet, Cooked Food and the Human Species < < <
The human species is the only species of animal that cooks its food and yet although
its metabolic systems for processing food to produce the energy it needs to rebuild
its body has taken tens of millions of years to evolve it has been living on a cooked
diet for only tens of thousands of years it is clear that it is having to evolve to
cope with a new way of processing its food source.
As a species humans are a type of monkey and therefore should consider their diet to
be as a species of ape.
The chimpanzee has 99% the same DNA as humans and the same chromosomes that are
indicators for cancer and yet just 2% of chimpanzees develop cancer 20% of humans are
likely to within their lives.
Chimpanzees don't eat cooked food.
Heating a plant changes or destroys much of the chemistry within its structure
depriving human body cells especially the more complex ones of the ability through
their DNA to replicate successfully, this can potentially cause either the cell to not
replicate at all or to replicate incorrectly using a sort of best guess scenario and
so contributing to various health problems, it is important to eat a range of plants
raw each day to alleviate this and have fruit and a comprehensive salad along side
everything else consumed. In other words having a variety of what can be eaten without
the need to cook it.
> > > The Difference between Artificial and Natural Intelligence < < <
Artificial Intelligence receives and transmits its information from and to the hard-
wired physics of which it must be a part; it receives its information from a fixed
source without real understanding or control over the nature of that source. It can
never interact with its environment to devise an original question the questions it
asks of the world have always already been created for it, as has the answer.
Natural Intelligence is based on emotional and environmental stimulus from living
tissue whether it is part of or external to the creature for which it evolved.
It has the ability to receive its information from several sources and in several
different ways from the environment for which it evolved. The way that natural
Intelligence receives and responds to information is not reliant on language or even
on the possession of a brain and is the result of stimulus from the environment and
then a response to it.
The answer given by either Artificial or Natural Intelligence to a question can be
wrong however the wrong answer given from an artificial source can never be truly
original no matter how complex the random nature of the physics or instruction set of
which it is composed it can never create a truly different or give a completely "off
the wall" answer. The answer the artificial intelligence gives can never evolve
spontaneously in a worse or better direction.
Artificial Intelligence may have stored knowledge in the form of a sophisticated
database system with weighted probabilities of data correctness built into each stored
element and may give correct answers to questions or partly or totally incorrect
answers but however sophisticated the mechanism used to produce an answer if
artificial intelligence produces an incorrect one then it does so for a traceable
reason probably based on incorrect data or algorithm.
Natural Intelligence can produce erroneous answers that are wrong but whose traceable
reason does not exist.
The human species that generally likes to define itself as an intellectual creature
with predictable answers to universal questions, has been created as the result of
reproductive natural selection a process that drives evolution of all life, this
process relies on there being random errors in the DNA chain creating modifications to
any creature that is evolving. The changes that the random modification engenders are
tested against an environment and if successful mean that the creature changes and the
change incorporated in the next generation and beyond, the process of random change
may lead to further improvements in species survivability in an environment.
This type of process within the intellect of an intellectually driven species, which
is what the human species represents, is driven by much the same type of principal
within the thought process. The important part of intelligence is not its
predictability but its unpredictability and perhaps the ability and the importance of
learning from mistakes, which are completely random in nature.
An artificial intelligence can never be a random form of intelligence. Two people that
have a similar psychology make up may think in a similar way however the mistakes that
each makes will occur differently and potentially be random in nature so may
ultimately result decision divergence and potentially different solutions to the same
set of problems.
Artificial intelligence will always ask questions that its algorithm and database
instruct it to, and as neither the algorithm or the database can ever be totally
random they must be predictable and therefore not original. However artificial
Intelligence could be made to ask questions humans are able to ask in fact it is
highly probable that it would.
Each individual thing that lives has its own view of the environment in which it
survives it therefore can potentially react differently to any challenge or question
that it encounters. Each individual life form can produce a completely random answer
to a question based on the misinterpretation of their environment, their past
experience, or an error in the thought process. The answers received from a question
put to a living form of intellect can therefore be randomly different and totally
wrong in a completely random way.
An artificial intelligence relies on an algorithm and database structure to interpret
its environment but however complex and diverse this becomes the answer it gives
therefore is one that it has been instructed to produce and can always be predicted or
the reason of an unpredicted result explained. The answer to a question given to any
natural intelligence can never be predicted with certainty or an unpredicted result
always explained, it produces an answer from within itself with its own thought
process and interpretation of memory which may or may not be correct but which can be
completely original especially in the case where it produces the wrong answer.
Natural intelligence exists to enable life to complete its cycle of reproductive
natural selection. The process of evolutionary development that all living things
experience both individually and collectively is itself a form of natural
intelligence.
Most creatures evolve to have some form of intelligence to enable them to preserve
their body against predators hunger and their environment in general so that they can
contribute to the evolution of the species of which they are part through reproductive
natural selection.
The true clock with which Natural intelligence is governed is based on a life forms
natural cycle of birth life and death of a creature and the corresponding emotions
that these things come with. Artificial Intelligence may be equipped with an accurate
clock but except for producing accurate answers to questions is in reality unaware
that it exists.
Natural intelligence is not governed by precise time, the sleep patterns emotional
cycles and other requirement for a life form to exist do not follow any type of
accurate time scale except that perhaps determined very approximately by the moon and
the sun. A life form only operates on the natural time scale by being aware of the
factors that drive it to certain actions such as feeling tired or feeling hungry which
occur at regular times but not exact ones.
The Natural Intelligence, which governs the existence of all life, is not one that is
just confined to the intellect but really includes every part of every living thing no
matter how simple the creature and is not confined to just the mind of a creature but
to the totality of its physical existence.
Artificial Intelligence can only pretend through its algorithm and database structure
to have an intellect but is unaware of its own physical existence and may potentially
only through its algorithm pretend to have one, it can never be truly aware of its own
existence or of anything else for that matter and therefore can never experience true
sympathy or have empathy for the suffering or joy that may exist in the real world.
Every part of everything that lives is intelligent and although sympathy is not always
shown between different species within the same species the need for evolution via
reproductive natural selection means that within a species sympathy, empathy, love for
other members of the same species must exist if only for a short period to enable the
reproductive process to happen and new life to be created. No thing that lives
destroys its next generation if it did then it would not exits and the species of
which it is part would not exit.
To create a conscious machine would mean the selection of the nature and level of
conciseness required and this no matter how complex it became could ever truly predict
the correct path that it would need to evolve along to remain able to maintain a
credible conscious state for any life form that tried to interact with it whether this
was human or anything else.
The human species that generally likes to define itself as an intellectual creature
with predictable answers to universal questions, has been created as the result of
reproductive natural selection a process that drives the evolution of all life, this
process relies on there being random errors in the DNA chain creating modifications to
any creature that is evolving. The changes that the random modification engenders are
tested against an environment and if successful mean that the creature changes and the
change incorporated in the next generation and beyond when the process of random
change may lead to further improvements in species survivability in an environment.
This type of process within the intellect of an intellectually driven species, which I
believe, is what the human species represents, is driven by much the same type of
principal within the thought process. The important part of intelligence is not its
predictability but its unpredictability and perhaps the ability and the importance of
learning from mistakes, which are completely random in nature. An artificial
intelligence can never be a random form of intelligence. Two people that have a
similar psychology make up may think in a similar way however the mistakes that each
makes will occur differently and be random in nature so may ultimately make their
decisions diverge and potentially find different solutions to problems.
Currently the method that we can imagine for the creation of Artificial Intelligence
is based on the application of our species use of computer technology, which may on
the surface have the illusion of intelligence but in reality can do little more than
conclude that 1 + 1 = 2, very quickly and in complicated ways perhaps, but in reality
nothing more. Our technology in its current state is not even remotely close to any
form of genuine Artificial Intelligence by using our current computer technologies,
which are giving an illusion of natural intelligence and will always fail the test of
not giving an original wrong answer.
Natural intelligence is self-aware and makes decisions based on its existence within
an environment as the result of this type of awareness, it is based on the
intelligence that is within its supporting body as well as that that contained within
the brain. Natural intelligence can be aware of birth, death, a father, a mother,
legs, hands etc and at the same time a long list of emotions and discomforts arising
from is environment.
The plan for intelligence is contained within the DNA pattern for each living thing,
to create this as artificial intelligence requires the construction of a machine and
the invention of a technology that could take a DNA pattern and enable a machine to
use the pattern to create a synthetic life form within the confines of a computer, to
be an intelligence that is aware means not just the mind but every other part of the
creature as well would be encoded in this way. Artificial intelligence needs knowledge
and this is not just cold data about the function of the constituent parts of a
species but also how they relate and function in terms of the creature that it as a
programme and associated data within a machine it represented, plus its origin,
reproductive imperative and potential death.
If complete knowledge of all the things could be given to a machine equal to the
natural intelligence of its counterpart and it became aware of its existence in a real
sense then something would have been created that would be aware of the environment in
which it is supposed to exist but never able to properly interact with it and if we
could create such a thing this perhaps would be a very cruel and selfish thing for the
human species to do.
> > > Conscience < < <
Everything that lives, or at least lives and has a primitive intellect, has a
conscience and the intellect of all creatures of which perhaps the human species has
evolved to the point where it is the most advanced, has been derived from the fact
that a conscience is one of the most important factors in the survival and propagation
of a species of life.
Even the simplest life form with intellect has a conscience, but does not need to
posses very great intelligence to possess one, the existence of intelligence and its
development is perhaps one of the direct results of conscience.
Conscience is the ability to differentiate between what is right to achieve the best
chance of species survival and what is wrong. This decision-making ability is based on
reproductive natural selection, and what has evolved, and what we now think of as
conscience has then perhaps evolved further to become intellect.
For the human species in its primitive state the human reproductive cycle comprises a
time scale of perhaps 15 years and for a partnership between male and female that
needs to last longer than this perhaps to at least 20 years to achieve the birth of
perhaps at least 5 offspring to allow for infant mortality and death in child birth
etc.
Deviation away from the long term relationship between male and female of the human
species to achieve species survival must be contrary to the conscience that is given
to each of us in our species as the result of reproductive natural selection.
No animal without a language with which to pass on experience knows how to reproduce
itself except by instinct and as part of, if not all of, instinct, is the contribution
make by conscience, this naturally attracts male to female and vice-versa, none of us
would be here if this were not true.
The human species and perhaps many others have intellects that can successfully over
ride their conscience.
Conscience comes from a primitive foundation, based on the need of any life form to
have inbuilt knowledge of its species survival strategy within an environment.
Intellect in the human species is heavily dependant on conscience for its "Moral code"
which is linked strongly with the human species collective and inherited conscience to
enable its successful and continued existence.
It is possible that some of the taboos that our species once had as the result of our
evolution from more primitive beginnings mean that we should override conscience using
reasoned thought, however this will probably never mean that it will ever be possible
for everyone to feel completely at ease with the result.
The rules for the existence of a species are defined by it conscience and then
enhanced and enabled by its intellect, if needed, to achieve a maximised chance of
species survival.
Any member of a species born without conscience is potentially a danger to other
members of that species, as decisions made by their intellect are unrestrained.
The rules of the various gods perhaps also derive from conscience making us believe
them to be right because they are "hard wired" into us as the result of an
evolutionary past.
> > > Defining Freedom < < <
Its population, and the environment within which it finds itself living restrict the
freedom that a life form can experience, with intellect comes the capacity to increase
population by restricting the behaviour patterns its individual members.
Restrictions of freedom can be by common consent or imposed by force and tend to
become more comprehensive as the habitat becomes more densely populated and resources
reduce in availability. Restrictions on freedom are tolerated within an intellectually
driven species up to the point where they begin to control the basic needs of an
individual's survival and that of its perceived family group.
In the case of simple life forms the rules governing freedom are created slowly
through the process of natural selection, with the human species the rules governing
freedom also develop as the result of the intellect and comprise political and
religious institutions or a combination of the two working together to make and
enforce them.
If a species of creature has no conscience and lives in a small population then
freedom is total and means that members of the population can do what they like when
they like to whatever they want. As the population increases so to do the restrictions
placed on the individual by the other members of the population and habitat, the
fittest survive as the result reproductive natural selection.
For the human species habitat does not just mean physical space but also the access to
materials within that space and the rules about freedom become more aggressively
restrictive on individual freedoms the more restricted material wealth and space
becomes.
If rules imposed restrict food supply and the ability to look after family members, so
restricting reproductive evolution, and the associated reproductive imperative and
there is inequality of reward for contributing to the intellectually based rules, then
demands for freedom, first of expression to demand changes, then demands for the
implementation of change occur.
Most democratised societies work because the population that feels its freedoms being
eroded controls the point, at which freedoms are restricted, beyond where they become
unacceptable. This is why if we do nothing else we must always defend democracy and
argue with our words and actions for its best possible continued implementation.
For the human species and for some others freedom is restricted because of conscience,
some members of the population can exist who have no restrictions imposed on them by
this, however, these individuals if they don't break the rules restricting freedom and
end up outcasts from normal society, can become the those controlling the very rules
that maintain freedom while themselves have no feelings of guilt in breaking them.
A lack of a conscience can enable the intellect to make decisions and come to
conclusions that it would otherwise be unable to do, individuals with a limited
conscience, can rise to be important leaders of society controlling the direction of
population and resource management within political, commercial and religious
organizations, their intellectual freedom being almost total and only limited by
careful adherence to rules set by government and religion to curtail excesses.
One threat to freedoms comes from individuals with minimal conscience controlling
commercial organisations, who are motivated to create wealth for a minority of a
population at the expense of the majority and this for their own personnel reward,
they should be controlled by democratic institutions, but commercial organisations
funding the existence of democratic ones can as the result of conscious free intellect
cause decisions to be made that are of just commercial benefit.
One of the most basic freedoms that every life form should be given is the right to a
family life. This is not an option that is always possible to achieve and within a
population there will always be members who fall outside the rules making this
possible.
Every form of life needs access to resources that enable the ability to accomplish
reproductive natural selection within its species; humans are no different in this
respect than is any other. Denial of the freedom to a family life leads to the
breakdown of society and social cohesion; this may manifest itself in many guises, use
of drugs, violence to other species members and theft of property to achieve perceived
status to enable family existence possible. Although our system of government and
culture may try and apply all sorts of explanations for human behaviour that falls
outside that which would be considered normal and restrict freedoms accordingly, our
behaviour has evolved over millions of years and the resulting populations that we
have now are the result of many successful evolving generations.
The freedoms of the human is now more controlled by the human minds intellect than by
the human bodies environment and our more basic and more important instincts for
enabling survival are now controlled by laws governing behaviour necessary in a
habitat with limited resources and a large population. Limitations of freedoms imposed
by the intellect have the danger of coming into conflict with the ones arising from
the evolutionary path that all humans are on via reproductive natural selection.
> > Are human beings better than other species < < <
Most members of the human species individualises life, so that they see cats, dogs,
pigeons, fish, plants etc as separate not only completely from human life but from
each other. The diseases that attack us in the form of bacteria and viruses we see as
enemies that must be defeated and in the realm of life in general humans consider some
creatures as cuddly some threatening and others just there to be exploited.
Life cannot be divided up as liked or disliked without it affecting the opinion we
have of our own species, the human species is a life form just like all others, to
dislike or love another creature is to dislike or love part of what we are.
In the human species the brain has developed to the extent where it is dependant on
the body and the body has become subservient to its needs, in other creatures where it
exists the brain exists to look after the needs and existence of the body of the
animal of which it is part.
The human brain can never accept the concept of the death of its supporting body and
needs to invent gods and myths to support its everlasting existence.
In our current evolutionary state the human species is evolving through its intellect
rather than natural selection. Bacteria and viruses with no intellect in the
conventionally defined human definition of the term evolve and defeat us at almost the
same speed as we can create new drugs to defeat them, they are pitting their version
of intellect based on evolutionary reproduction against ours based on the brain, and
are often winning.
The human species is not better it is just different in the way that all living
creatures are different one from another. Humans have to live with and respect the
existence of all other life as equal so that life, in totality can thrive and survive
on the planet on which it has to survive.
Evolution of a living creature is not about change just because it can happen but
change that enables a more complete habitation of the environment in which all life
exists. In this context the human brain has enabled our intellectual ability to evolve
and achieve the purpose of maximising the existence of humans and potentially of all
living things.
Every part of every thing that lives is in its own way intelligent.
A flower will follow the sun, the sap in a tree will rise in the spring, skin will
heal itself if damaged none of these things happen due to a brain but they are at the
same time actions which are analysing and responding to external factors in the
environment.
Humans as a species risk valuing an educated intelligence over the type of
intelligence demonstrated by Flowers, trees, and the body's ability to heal itself,
these are not the product of a brain but are none the less indicators of an
alternative intellect so enabling a species to survive within its environment.
If every human had a mind that was super intelligent and did nothing but pursue
abstract thought because of its beauty rather than a need to survive then every human
would soon fail the evolutionary test and be unable to exist within the environment on
which it depended, which would prove in the real world rather than that of the
intellect that humans were not the match of other species.
The noble values that humans may be able to use to justify their superiority over
other creatures are ones that have evolved for the human species to best maximise its
comfort and survival. All creatures exploit other creatures for their survival we are
perhaps unique for apart from viruses and bacteria very few creatures exploit us for
theirs. We can as a species never out compete other life to its total destruction for
if we did then that would in turn lead to our extinction and many of our values
recognise perhaps by chance that fact. We need to realise that the existence of life
on this planet is not dependant on our behaviour; we are just not that important as a
species, no matter what humans do, life on this planet will survive even though we may
destroy our species by the destruction of most others.
> > > Space the now point in time < < <
Time has always existed.
There are three states of time they are past, present and future. Neither the past nor
the future actually exist for the matter from which everything is made, the only
existence for this is in the present and records that exist of a past are those of a
past presence, and are no more in existence than anything that may exist in the
future. Therefore the present time separates past and future and acts as a strict
division between them.
Either side of the present there is on one side a chaotic past that no thing from the
present can visit and on the other a future time.
Time is unable to pass around the present but must pass through it, if time could pass
around the present time then the now point in time would be scattered, fragmented and
unpredictable.
Time if unable pass around the present time must pass through it, using this logic can
account for the existence of the atomic particles that make up the observable
universe; each fundamental particle exists, as a weakness in the present time through
which time passes.
Current theory and experimental physics suggest that no atomic particle can exceed the
speed of light because its mass will, increase exponentially towards infinity as it
approaches light speed. The weakness in the presence through which time is passing is
stable with the movement of time through it as a speed equivalent to the speed of
light, if the particle moves within the present then it absorbs more time from the
direction moved in than that moved from, eventually as the speed approaches that of
light the absorption of time from the direction moved in will move towards a point
where the particle is unstable and its mass due to time absorption from the direction
moved in increase, momentum and kinetic energy that a moving object acquires may be
thought of as existing based on the same principle.
Electromagnetic waves exist only in the present time therefore they must exist between
the past and the future. An electromagnetic wave therefore may potentially exist by
moving the presence through which it passes slightly to the past and then to the
future causing vibrations to any atomic particles it interacts with as the result of
the displacement to the absorption of time by the particle. A particle that vibrates
may conversely set up a displacement in the present time to and from the past and
future and so create an electromagnetic wave.
If space can be seen as being the now point in time and existing between the past and
future it is then possible to speculate about the existence of gravity, black holes,
the apparent shortage of mass in the universe and the way in which stars orbiting the
centre of galaxies do not obey the currently defined laws of physics.
Present time, is the same everywhere in the perceive universe except for the points in
it where a weakness allows for the passage of time through it, even at these points
time moves at the same speed as in every other part of the universe because the same
amount of time is always being absorbed, for them to be stable.
Particles within space experience a passage of time and also mass because they have
time passing through them and the relative passage of time between moving particles
can be different and depend on the absorption of time resulting from the relative
travel speeds between those particles.
If one particle is stationary and another moving away relative to it then its
absorption of time towards the stationary particle is slower in that direction but
greater in the direction in which it is travelling, therefore although total time
absorption is constant the relative absorption between particles is not.
A stationary particle perceives time moving more slowly than a moving one, because of
the reduced time absorption apparent towards it from the moving one, time however
would be perceived as the same for both particles relative to the present time within
which they both exist.
As a particle moves, its kinetic energy and the passage of time relative to other
particles are dependent on the relative direction and speed of movement towards or
away from each other.
The concept of a now point for matter is the same for each particle but not perceived
the same in terms of other particles moving relative to it. If a particle moves
relative to a stationary one then the stationary one would perceive the time of the
moving particle as passing at a different to its own, however if the moving particle
stops then both times would be perceived to move at the same speed.
Distance in space is only measurable between particles; in time there is no physical
measure of distance. Each particle exists in space within the present time. The actual
rate at which each perceives the others time to pass is determined by velocity and
direction travelled through space.
The present time in a galaxy far away is exactly the same in terms of the space as it
exists here, therefore the speed at which time would pass within the environment of
that galaxy would be the same, however the perceived rate with which it passes for the
particles that make up the galaxy would depend on the relative movement between it and
ours. Of course our perception of the galaxy might be of its present time perhaps 2.5
million years ago.
The current laws of thermodynamics give good answers to the questions that we need to
solve, but this does not necessarily mean that the right results are coming from or
for the correctly interpreted reason.
If the universe existed and none of the objects or particles in it moved none of the
laws of physics related to special relativity would need to apply, however the
universe exists and all of the objects or particles in it move, the laws of special
relativity apply and the rate of movement of present time for a moving object is not
the same rate movement of a present as one moving relative to it, also the dimension
of any object that moves reduces in its direction of travel.
An object moving at the speed of light speed would have zero length, always exist in
the same presence and have an infinite mass. Each particle that exists only has a
common presence or now time when moving at the same speed and in the same direction in
space.
If a time slice were taken of the moving universe at any single instant then that
universe would appear the same as the stationary one and all now points in time would
be the same present time, no moving objects would be effected by length change and any
object moving at light speed would appear normal relative to all others.
It is perhaps possible to deduce, from this argument that everything that Special
relativity infers is based on time not speed or mass and that it is the movement
between instances of an objects present time that result in the effects that the
standard model of relativity predicts, and experiment proves for, a moving object.
Time has no physical dimension to limit its scale, and this would appear to be very
much the case with what we perceive as space, the suggestion that space is the now
time may explains space should exist and in fact has to exist for there to be time,
the view we have of other areas of the universe is through space, the zero point in
time.
When we look at space we look at something that is empty but in reality is the point
between an infinite past and an infinite future, around each point in space there is a
future and a past they exist in the same dimension but at different times.
An object moving relative to another stationary one will pass through more instances
of the present time than the stationary one hence time for that object will run at a
different rate to one that is stationary. An observer on the stationary objects would
see clocks on the moving one move at a different rate. When the moving object stops
although the amounts of time passed would be apparently different they would still be
in the same present time.
Science appears unable to define what the collection of atomic particles that
everything is created from actually is or why the forces between them exist, the
suggestion here is that everything is the result of time and its relationship with the
now, zero position or present state of it.
According to the current generally accepted opinion in physics the universe was
created as the result of a big bang and some sort of inflation into or perhaps to
create space, if any one looks at this proposal with a seriously sceptical mind it
appears almost the pronouncement of a religion and although based on observation and
mind boggling mathematics is certainly more speculation than hard fact. The existence
of everything in over a billion galaxies each containing billions of stars is,
according to the big bang theory supposed to have happened just by chance 13.8 billion
years ago, created everything from nothing and then distributed it quite equally
around the universe, this idea is as much based on un-provable speculation and belief
as it is on hard facts and mathematics.
If the only thing that exists, and must always have existed is time, then in someway
everything that exists must in someway exist because of it.
It is easy to deduce that there is no past or present that exists for anything only
the present. A velocity can be proved to change the speed at which the present moves
through time, and cause mass increase, but this only happens up to the point where the
present does not pass at all, light speed, and in no way indicates that the past or
the present exist as some sort of real parallel existence.
The link between time, speed of the present and mass increase of a moving body of
material, resulting from its velocity, proves a link between time and the existence of
matter.
An alternative creation theory to the big bang theory is that if the universe exists
in the form of space as the present time and there and is no way that time can pass
through it then a weakness in that universe many times larger than that of a
fundamental atomic particle is created through which time passes at speeds exceeding
those of light. The weakness created equates to the Big Bang and the rupture of time,
between future to past caused our observable universe and its expansion.
The point prior to the time rupture is achieved when matter in the universe has been
converted into electro magnetic wave energy to a degree where time cannot pass through
space at a sufficiently high rate through atomic particles.
When the time rupture occurs the weakness created in space is unsustainable and
resolves itself into fundamental atomic particles, which are stable with time passing
through them at a rate equivalent to the speed of light. Time passing through the
weakness in the present vortexes, and breaks the original into smaller ones that are
projected away from their source that, while still spinning, resolve themselves into
the stable galaxies that we now see.
Time can vortex when passing through a fundamental particle, the type of vortex is
spherical in nature. When in vortex the rate at which time passes through the particle
is still the same but the spiral speed can be greater than that of the speed of light
and depending on the direction and nature of the vortex, this is gives it its electro
magnetic properties.
Gravity is the result of the effect of time passing through collections of fundamental
particles, in space the effect of this can be to deform space and bend the path that
electro magnetic waves take in passing a large gravitational force. Electromagnetic
waves in this model travel in the present time and therefore are bent as the result of
the absorption of time, caused by the existence of matter, in the present time.
When a galaxy is formed and stabilises into stable particles the forces acting on them
eventually pull many if not all towards the galaxies centre, this results in a massive
concentration of matter that has a huge gravitational effect on its surroundings.
At the centre of each concentration of matter at the middle of a galaxy there is
potentially a fundamental particle, which is larger than the standard, this super
particle is held in place and enabled to exist by the concentration of other
surrounding normal but closely packed fundamental particles. Time is able to pass
through a super particle at far greater rates than through just a collection of
fundamental ones, the effect of the passage of time through a super particle leads to
a huge gravitational effect and the distortion of space itself far greater than would
be expected from an equivalent body, made from fundamental atomic particles, this
leads to the way in which stars orbiting the centre of galaxies do not obey the
currently defined laws of physics.
