JGeropoulas
The Living Force
Last week, while reading about Edward Snowden in Mountain Astrologer magazine (Oct issue) I saw a reference to an article about the Utah Data Center, which I didn't see on SOTT this past June (http://www.sott.net/article/262706-Astronomically-large-amount-of-data-storage-capacity-inside-the-NSAs-secret-Utah-data-center)
The article (_http://www.activistpost.com/2013/06/skynet-to-launch-october-2013.html) centered around the idea that technological elimination of private thought is a key weapon of those aiming to reduce humans to machines, used against those humans who aim to evolve spiritually/cosmically. Here's a section of that article (bold is my emphasis):
The battle line -- computer consciousness vs. cosmic consciousness?
For visual impact, check out these 2 flow charts (midway down in this article) that put it all into chilling perspective:
_http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-of-the-nsas-utah-data-center-2013-6#ixzz2l1G6CAFE
The article (_http://www.activistpost.com/2013/06/skynet-to-launch-october-2013.html) centered around the idea that technological elimination of private thought is a key weapon of those aiming to reduce humans to machines, used against those humans who aim to evolve spiritually/cosmically. Here's a section of that article (bold is my emphasis):
At the center of the data center will be one of the world's most powerful computers ever built (at least as far as we art told). ...‘Titan Supercomputer’ will come alive and for the first time operate at the speed necessary and with the memory required to become conscious.
According to Ray Kurzweil, the geek poster boy of transhumanism, in his 1999 prophecy and transhumanistic bible entitled When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence: The Age of Spiritual Machines, the above average human brain operates or process approximately... 20,000 trillion calculations per second. [take a second, and reflect on that 20,000 trillion times!]
... the NSA Supercomputer Titan, coincidentally is advertised to operate at 20,000 trillion calculations per second.
'Furthermore, Kurzweil explains that in addition to computing power, a human-like sentient computer would also have to have at least as much memory as the current state-of-the-art human being, which he calculates to be about...122,000 gigabytes.
According to the article above, the memory available to Titan is...at least 5 Zettabytes or 5 trillion gigabytes, which is enough memory to incorporate 41 MILLION HUMAN BRAINS.
The battle line -- computer consciousness vs. cosmic consciousness?
According to the original Terminator movie timeline, Skynet’s technology was built and began deployment in 1994 (no doubt an Orwell wink, as a Terminator robot is sent back to 1984 to stop the birth of JC - not Jesus Christ, but John Connor), and on August 4, 1997 the machine went online. Learning geometrically, the machine became sentient at 2:14 AM, 25 days later on August 29, 1997...
The Titan Supercomputer, with enough computing power and infallible memory to become sentient, will come online in October, 2013 and, like “Skynet”, will it begin to learn? With the brain capacity of 41 million human minds and all of the data and information about billions of human beings - this "machine" could become quite powerful very quickly. With connections to satellites and every major power and command center on earth and the knowledge base of nearly every human mind in the written history of mankind - all written knowledge: we can only imagine the possibilities.
With the arrival of Titan, the latest and greatest model of a co-evolving machine-based life, the technology now exists to eradicate all human privacy. This is a very big event in human history, one that would require a book to explore, but I am going to venture a few reasons why it will become the bifurcation point in the race of the man versus the machine.
Privacy also includes privacy of thought; technology permitting direct measure and prediction of thought is now being successfully deployed.
Privacy is a uniquely human idea and experience and I would argue necessary for human evolution and growth as a species of individuals seeking an individual experience with paths to personal growth, spiritualism and self actualization.
Without privacy, what is a individual? He or she is a forgone conclusion, a worker bee, a drone or, using a Star Trek analogy, a Borg. Without privacy, human development, personality, strengths, appearance and characteristics will become uniform and monotonous. Without privacy, there will eventually be no concept of private property and its accumulation toward expressions of sudden knowledge bursts and improvement via repeated struggle of human minds seeking to solve problems benefiting the individual and species.
Without private property, there can be no Liberty by definition. Liberty is the freedom of will to choose and do individual things, think individual thoughts and express oneself individually, concomitantly where news and knowledge of these expressions is always derivative, never before the fact.
Without privacy, I would argue much of mankind will make his last act of individualism and choose not to live, because privacy is the oneness, the aloneness that defines the “I” in "I am alive".
Mankind 2.0
Kurzweil and other futurists, god wannabees, technocrats, and wealth-dense psychopaths all know and anticipate an end for human beings in our present form. They anticipate a grand culling where those who will not conform and 'transform' will lose the will to live in a world of intellectual and physical inferiority; in a world without the privacy necessary to trigger a far stronger, intelligent and self evolving human individual.
The technocrats expect 'standard' wetware human beings to become drones, slaves, relegated to the toy closest of wealthy gods looking for interesting gifts for their children. But I think humanity is still possessed of something the gods of the machine have failed to recognize in their haste to end the individual and build a collective hive minded, data sharing, alpha Borg.
Quantum Minds and Spiritual Entanglements
...Beyond the abstract arguments couched in obscurity of abstruse mathematics is the question of life from a spiritual point of view. The idea that human beings are more than a meat sack benefiting from an evolved, 3 pound, wet-working, DNA based, sugar-powered parallel processor. Many people see the human body as the seat of a soul, a higher being condensed into a suitable shell, enjoying a spectacularly human experience as part of an immortal sequence of an infinite number of lifetimes.
The evidence of what Lawrence LeShan called the “Clairvoyant Reality” and “Transpsychic Reality” seems to indicate the human mind is also connected to a higher order of consciousness, something connecting all life, perhaps all life in the Universe. Dr. LeShan and others have used altered states of consciousness to discover information and to affect changes in our reality including healing of others through psychic connections, that cannot be explained using models based on algorithms and Turing machines.
Humans possess a DNA-based genetic blueprint capable of storing massive amounts of data, at least 700 Terabytes per gram of DNA is the current estimate. Additionally, the human brain appears to contain a light-sensitive receiver capable of detecting light even in total darkness, the Pineal gland. The Pineal gland structure and the structure of DNA suggest that both may have properties of a receiving antenna, capable of receiving and transmitting electromagnetic information.
These discoveries and the lack of information about how that brain/mind organ actually works, mean that the human evolution/spiritual path my have yet much to reveal. Perhaps expanded consciousness and more directed use of dormant DNA will lead to a biological human 2.0, given time.
Collectivism’s Final Frontier
Kurzweil makes the claim that machines have characteristics which make them superior to humans along a number of dimensions. One of the primary attributes of machine intelligences is their ability to quickly share and clone information (data).
Machines, according to Kurzweil would only require one working unit to populate their entire kind - a single machine life-form could then clone and copy data to others; instantly the new machines would have access to all the knowledge of their ancestor. “Machines can readily share all of their accumulated knowledge, so only one machine has to do the learning”. Humans on the other hand must learn via a slow and arduous process [i.e. "Work"] and, at the same time, suffer the loss of memory and incorporate detriments of an aging body.
The advantages of instantly sharing, copying and cloning information among artificially intelligent entities are, however, inconsistent with individuality and novelty. Humans beings are individuals, experiencing an individual life; contributing to the collective lives of others only as required for optimum survival of the individual and hence the species. Individuals are required to produce and populate the species and distinctive characteristics evolve by natural selection and the nature of the spawned individual, which introduces novelty and unexpected consequences and the uniqueness of an individuals experience.
Data sharing, cloning and copying are schematic code for uniformity and a singular experience. Creating life based on sharing and copying are consistent with Collectivism, a paradigm used to conform and transform individuality into uniformity and consistent with the known consequences of generational incest.
Kurzweil and global elite expecting to somehow “breakaway” from their humanity and merge with the machine resulting in both immortality and access to infinite knowledge must also understand it is the nature of collectivism to reduce complexity in the pursuit uniformity. Collectivism favors the collectors; any systems involving sentient life must also include a hierarchy of interests with rules of survival dictating use of resources. Kurzweil and company may find themselves trapped in their own collective, prisoners of immortality and numbed down by monotony.
In the words of the Borg: We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
Revolution 2.0
For those of us that want to remain human it is important to value privacy, property and the resulting Liberty. We are now in the upward knee of an approaching singularity which has been telegraphed for centuries and soon will change the very nature of being human.
Now is the time self-actualized, spiritually enlightened individuals demand and, if necessary, fight to remain private beings, living and growing and experiencing our unique and distinctive private lives.
It is time to erase and reboot the techno-civilization that is exponentially accelerating toward collectivism’s final frontier; take down systems designed to destroy privacy, collect data and redistribute self-responsibility.
For humans a life of self-responsibility is the means to remain human. We are individuals and as such responsible for and benefit from our uniqueness and the resulting control over destiny.
We are not a means to some other’s ends, but rather an end in ourselves.
For visual impact, check out these 2 flow charts (midway down in this article) that put it all into chilling perspective:
_http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-of-the-nsas-utah-data-center-2013-6#ixzz2l1G6CAFE
