Artificial Intelligence ... what have we learned through natural ignorance?

During the late '80s and early '90s, I had thethat, without creativity, there can be no progress.
opportunity to work with expert systems inCreativity is a way to expand one's consciousness
real-time production environments. I found artificialby taking abstract ideas and turning them into a
intelligence, or AI, to be thoroughly intriguing. Inew reality. It is a way to take what you know
even went so far as to write an expert systemas an absolute, and stretch it into the unknown.
package, under Microsoft Windows, calledEach stretch takes you further and expands your
WindExS. However, as I continued my work, andabsolutes along the way.
expanded into other areas of knowledgeWithout creativity, you would do the same things
management and, eventually, remote viewing, Ithat you've always done in life without ever
began to find some unusual inconsistencies in themoving forward or backward. Consider it as being
AI world and the desires to create "truly"caught in a rut." You can't leave the rut because
intelligent" and "thinking" machines.you can't figure out how to get out of it. When
One of the issues that people usually claim as ayou think creatively, you're taking things that you
requirement of true intelligence is that "one mustknow, applying it to things that you don't, and
have a soul." These ideas and dabbling prompteddevising a solution to achieve a goal.
me to write a short screenplay entitled "Sylvie,"To access the vast resources of creativity, the
which was the story of an "emotionally intelligent"mind reaches into the bio-circuit and extracts bits
system. That small inkling of creativity still did notand pieces of information that it can use to
allow me to delve as deeply into the topic as Icreate intelligent solutions. By developing your
had wanted. However, it did bring up the question:creative abilities, you are opening that circuit to
"what is a soul?"more knowledge, a greater intellect, and a
--- What is AI? ---broader understanding of life.
AI is the science and engineering of making--- What is the soul anyway? ---
machines intelligent, especially through the creationA discussion of creativity once again brings up the
of intelligent software. It is similar to the task ofquestion of: "what is the soul?" After some
using computers to understand human intelligence,thought and evaluation, I would have to say that
but AI does not have to confine itself to methodsthe soul is the link, the transceiver, between our
that are biologically observable. Intelligence is thephysical world and the bio-circuit. It is the living
computational part of the ability to define a planessence of everything within each of us.
and achieve goals. Different types and levels ofBy closing ourselves off into our own worlds and
intelligence occur in people, animals, and somehiding our souls under the muck and mire of
machines. However, the ultimate premise behindchallenges, we close off our connection to the
creating an intelligent machine is the ability to thinkbio-circuit. Our soul essentially dies and we
creatively, solve problems using abstractbecome a stand-alone computer with only the
information, and devise new solutions.knowledge we have saved as our guide.
--- The Biological Parallel Computer ---However, by working to bring your soul forward
Consider the vast amount of information that weand using your creativity in everything you do,
acquire and process every day. It is difficult toyou can acquire knowledge from every part of
imagine that so much information and activitythe Universe.
could be stored in such a small amount of tissue--- True AI ---
and fluid. Scientists have been theorizing that,Scientists have tried to mimic the way the human
indeed, the mind is not as much of a storagebrain functions. Storage, processing, intelligence,
device as it is a communications device to someand self-learning are all components of AI.
larger "knowledge base." The mind appears to beHowever, what if the basic premise of how the
a way to pre-process data for storage and abrain functions was --- wrong? Indeed, it provides
way to analyze data for use while all the timecontrol over our bodies and accepts stimuli;
maintaining a connection for data storage andhowever, what if the ideas of processing,
acquisition with this knowledge base.intelligence, storage, and self-learning all truly based
This knowledge base surrounds us withon the connection of our minds with the bio-circuit.
information and intelligence. Everything that everyIn this way, to create a mimic of the human
creature in the Universe knows, and will everintellect, we must understand how we interact
know, is stored and made available for us bywith each other through the bio-circuit.
simply asking for it. However, accessing it requires--- What's next? ---
a connection, a field, which connects us allWhat an unusual foray into strange territory.
together in a large "bio-circuit." It can be seen as aHowever, this has been a general concept that
"biological parallel computing environment." Thehas been eating at me for years. It wasn't until I
information presented by this bio-circuit consistsbegan remote viewing that I was able to see and
of a limitless and accessible Universal source ofapply the ideas of Universal intelligence to the
knowledge.ideas of artificial intelligence. I am not going to say
--- Why be creative? ---that, in this context, a machine cannot have a
I remember my days in school where I wassoul, as stranger things have happened. However,
taught that, indeed, daydreaming and excessiveI will say that the true nature of intelligence will
creativity could destroy your life. However, thenot be realized until we understand and believe
important thing that I learned along the way isthe true purpose and function of the soul.