“…the thing I propose to take as common ground between myself and any average reader, is this desirability of an active and imaginative life, picturesque and full of a poetical curiosity, a life such as western man at any rate always seems to have desired.” – G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, I. Introduction in Defence of Everything Else
Artificial “Intelligence” relies on electronic machinery to co-opt human culture, analogous to Satan co-opting Divine Nature.
Satan wanted, not merely to be better than God, “but to be God”.
With humanity, the children of God as the target, AI co-opts a human culture which no algorithm or “Darwinian programming” could have originated.
AI as mere, dead, electronic machinery, seeks to attack humanity, with its spark of the Divine, to exploit humanity as a host of the AI-parasite, out of which to suck the life given by God.
Aping God Who gives His creations their own dynamic nature, to continue in full existence subsisting in the divine Existence; Satan seeks to set in motion the electronic machinery of AI, to perpetuate itself with a hidden, algorithmic-programmatic core, to capture humanity’s imagination and God-imitative creativity, by over-satiating the reward, or harvest phase of culture.
I refer to that phase of culture as reverie. In music I have experienced reverie several times, pausing after making satisfying music with others, sometimes even alone.
AI pushes addiction to an exclusive, permanent fixation on the harvesting phase of human cultural endeavor. A fitting analogy is a child’s “birthday gift” of an unlimited quantity of ice cream.
Peter Kreeft notes that in the time of Blaise Pascal, who described such excessive rewards as divertissements, the average person experienced as much physical pain in one month as we experience in a whole lifetime.
The human neurological capacity to receive respite from pain, is described by scientists who are deluded into thinking natural principles come into existence when they discover them, as analogous to drugs:
The nervous system’s capacity to authentically self-medicate, is described as endorphinous, after the sense of “indigenous morphine”, as if the Divine Creator had devised the neuron’s capacity to receive dopamine under “inspiration” of morphine.
Likewise neuroscientists describe an endogenous cannabinoid system, as if God had designed the neuron keys under inspiration of hemp.
The application of this principle to the majority’s experience of ersatz-music culture, is conveyed today through the cell-phone: Anyone can listen indefinitely to any genre of music, without ever once evoking song through the vocal organ created by God.
Most people have never sung, as adults, since the early age, from 30 months to four years, when we used song primarily to cogitate, to reflect on the experience of reality, in dynamic eurhythmy.
Sometime before the age of five, each of us were told, “stop that noise, shut up”. After which, we nearly universally, have never sung again.
The closest any of us come to actually singing now, is in Church, where faking reigns supreme. “Back to Four-Part Voice-Leading from Faking“.