(in)Finite Beings
The intelligence that can conceive of infinite is not necessarily itself infinite!
If we are finite beings (a fact), then no part of our beings can be infinite, meaning that there is obviously a limit to our human intelligence. Even if we could record and retain all human knowledge, it would still be finite. How would we know that we have reached the limit of our "intelligence". How does a child know learn that? By encountering those that know more than him, and hopefully, he can then learn to learn from others. Thus hopefully growing into an adult who can acknowledge his or her limitations, especially in the areas of intelligence! An old adage says that it is only a fool who thinks he has nothing more to learn.
Finite intelligence
What if our intelligence was limited? Surely, we do not believe that we have infinite intelligence, do we? Even if there are those deluded beings who think that they are or can become, if not gods themselves, at least like gods - they know, in their true hearts, that they are not of infinite intelligence (or infinite anything - except for the "part" that can conceive of the infinite itself) - one has to acknowledge that not everyone has that capacity.
The brain's capacity is finite. Its "infinite" capacity is not of the brain, but what we refer to as the soul. That is why, as we age, we spend more time in the realm of the spirit—otherwise we became "dead in spirit". Thus it says, "Elohim will cause the dead to rise" – מחיה המתים.
It –the brain – can only contain a certain amount of information. Just as the holographic image that contains other information that enables us to perceive it as 3d, so information is contained that is not of the brain, but also of some thing else.
Those that say that we only use 10% of our brain's capacity, to them I say: Perhaps the other 90% is being used to maintain processes and relationships that we are unaware of and that we are only capable of being aware in some form of fashion of 10% of what is actually going on in that amazing brain of yours. Perhaps it needs the other 90% to support the 10% that make the "I" that is self-aware.
Technology magic
Perhaps all this talk of level IV civilisations, stems around our ability to actually comprehend a technology that would be able to take us, whilst still in human form, as human beings to such an advanced and sophisticated level of empirical existence. This level of technological progress would require another set of cognitive capabilities - which most of us do not yet have. It would take (and has in the past) many years of training, and only those with specific talents would be able to complete it. All would benefit, and some would be harmed, but overall, it would require a certain set of "special" people - the "Indigos", to penetrate these arcane veils. It would require a mixture of magic and form, a melding of the spiritual and the material - with angelic or 4th dimensional "intelligence".
As, in each step of evolution, there are those who will remain behind to hold the foundations. One cannot ascend to a higher level without the lower levels being stable and nourished. They will continue to transact and relate in the 3d and 2d realities present today. These will be the ones who will enter the World to Come, and like Bodhisattvas, will guide and balance the energies of these vibrant dimensions, bringing greater fulfilment and understanding to many - as they have done throughout the ages. The only difference now, is that this is the birth time of this evolution. History is littered with failed attemps, ideas that never made it to print, that later emerged. Or that emerged in a disjoint part of the world. When the time of an idea/direction comes, the idea will emerge.
{NOTE: Which would bolster the argument that we are going to need some other sort of understanding, some part of our mental capacities that we have not yet discovered/acknowledge, let alone plumbed - perhaps due to fear, we rather stay tethered to this purely material existence. At least it is rooted in something. As we have been saying for a long time - it will require a dynamic balance, between co-operation and competition for as to evolve.}
Perhaps our vaunted intelligence can only see so far. In other words, what if we are bounded in "thought" and comprehension. For the eye to see, the brain has to be able to evaluate what it is seeing. Otherwise, the data arrives, but nothing is done with it. It is indicative of the miles of printed paper that lies trashed and useless. In order for something to be seen, it requires a seer - i.e. transmitter/receiver!
It seems that we are driven at this stage by the belief that we humans can design AI to "increase our capabilities". I do believe we can/are able. Through bioengineering, we physically enhance the machine that is our body, but we do not enhance the mental or emotional capabilities. Thus it might produce a type of an android, or rather a Golem - a Frankinsteinian monster that we have built, but have no idea how to handle its emotional needs.
Perhaps we extend ourselves to the limit of our consciousness...
{NOTE: Which again, brings us to an interesting paradox, of actually, the belief in an infinite (or at least, greater) consciousness is what drives this desire to expand. There is a common desire to encounter the Infinite.}
Two ways:
- encounter to kill; pain of the rejection; feeling alone and despairing; having cried out to G-d, and not been answered (or so it seems). Has become this. So, rather than meet, it wants to devour and destroy everything that reminds him of his Father. This has much noise, much glam. It has to sell itself all the time, as exactly what it is not.
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NOTE As I mentioned - one of its main drives is to (dis)prove the Infinite's existence - by encountering it and destroying it (which will prove that we are superior to that which bore/created us - and the world in which we exist by the way)
} - encounter to unify. meet by acceptance and receptiveness; opening oneself to the Truth. Based on a belief in my Father. That He has not abandoned me. That He guides me, and speaks to me all the time, in His language, the language of* Chashmal *, which can only be heard in silence.
and then fall back. An ever repeating tower of Babel. That, too, is the cycle that lives in everything, especially the living. Our breath, the day, the very cosmos itself. The endless cycle of Samsara, gain and lose, expand andcontract, transmit andreceive.
Stasis
If it is dead, this stasis is relatively stable, with a very small amount of energy being transferred to and from its environment.
However, if it is "alive", there is a more active interchange – which could even be judged by measuring the energy of these interactions. In other words, one could even judge whether a "thing" is alive or dead by the amount of energy that is being transferred between it and its surroundings.
As a result of this it requires a specific and ongoing energy input. In order to survive, the form needs nourishment from the surroundings. Thus to be alive has an inherently destructive aspect that is seldom taken into account as an important aspect of the full energy interaction.
Thus it is inevitable, in a purely commercial situation, that eventually anything alive would become a liabiltiy. Anything that wished to live an autonomous existence would be looked at as useless. That is why there is the continuous destruction of the ancient, of the environment, and now of people themselves.