Fear is our worst enemy. The demon of fear does not like us to resolve problems. Are you afraid that you will be thrown out on the street because you do not have money to pay the rent? Okay, might they throw you out? So what? Do you by any chance know what new doors will be opened for you? Intuition knows it and that is why the intuitive person is not afraid. Intuition dissolves problems. Are you afraid of losing your job? Okay, you might lose it, so what? Do you by any chance know what new job there will be for you? Intuition knows it and that is why the intuitive person is not afraid. When the battle of thought ceases, intuition is born and fear ends. Intuition dissolves problems no matter how difficult they may be. —Samael Aun Weor, Revolution of the Dialectic
Artificial Intilligence
Before we talk about artificial intelligence, think about real intelligence for a minute. We measure it with an Intelligence Quotient (IQ) where a score of 100 is average intelligence.
These IQ tests are not a true measure of one’s intelligence. They really measure social awareness, cleverness or one’s ability to reason by association. But a computer may be able to score fairly high in this regard.
Social awareness is very subjective, a computer could compete very well against a human. Cognitive awareness, on the other hand, should give the competitive edge to humans.
Except for the fact that humans are devolving at a frightful rate. Their cognitive awareness is in the toilet. For a good example of this, drive on the freeway of a large metropolitan area for an hour.
If the average human IQ continues to decline, then computers will continue to gain an edge in the area of artificial intelligence. As humans start to rely on computers to do their thinking then the gap will continue to widen.
Their will always be some humans who individually are smarter than computers. Certainly the ones who built the AI. But we find ourselves in an era where the human with a low or average intelligence is less inclined to trust or listen to the smart humans. This paints a grim picture for humanity.
There is an old saying, “He who is clever is stupid.” It took me many years to come to any understanding behind this aphorism.
Developing Intuition
In his search for the Presence, the Yogi links himself with nature’s will, which is in the plane of intuition. When this is reached man no longer “thinks,” he “knows.” He has tapped the knower consciousness and, as it works in nature, so will it function through him. Even in his present condition man has flashes of intuition where he knows, without thought. When he receives this guidance he should act upon it at once, for “He who hesitates is lost.” In a higher sense this intuition is a manipulation of nature’s will. The genius of Edison often so manifested that through him nature gave many wonderful gifts to man. But the average man has never learned to recognize an intelligence separate from the human body.
The reasoning person converts his mind into a battlefield filled with prejudices, fears, anxieties, fanaticism, and theories, and his conclusions are always favorable to him. Yet, such a turbulent lake can never reflect the sun of truth.
The mind of the intuitive one serenely and silently flows very far away from the black struggle of antithesis and from the storm of exclusivity.
Samael Aun Weor