Dr. Alfred Lanning: [voiceover] There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?
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I don't really mean to have to be so public about this, but I'm afraid I "don't have a choice in the matter..." For those of you who've seen the movie i-Robot, you know as well as I do Dr. Lanning was put up in a hard place to have to reveal the secret behind the "soul". Even if it cost him his life. Then there's also the flip side to the story, when one reveals what he knows because he realizes he is doomed or going to die anyhow. We certainetly were exposed to a significant amount of that when the bunch of us watched the movie Taken yesterday.
I never initially envisioned myself spending another Valentine's day alone, aren't I supposed to be celebrating my own one year anniversary along with what my spiritual director would call another "prince in Christ" except just in a different way? There was an interesting theme that was brought up at prayer meeting this morning, that with Christ in our hearts, we truly have nothing to fear. I hope my friend is able to figure out the meaning to her nightmares and like my prof was saying about dreams that repeat themselves being decoded, that she would stop having them.
In a sense, I didn't really spend this day alone at all and as I was yet experiencing a second failed attempt at sleeping and having a concious impression that God wanted me to go to my e-mail to figure out how to take the "next step" and I ended up getting two e-mails, one in particular drew me to an older blog entry that had lyrics to a song I remember singing once when I was on a spiritual drive (as opposed to those "spiritual walk"s I like to do at times) and I came down some pretty bad health issues for about a week and a half after that which I was even willing to suspect was swine flu. But before the potential "S-flu"... I also had this unique experience when God worked through nature and gave me a clear sky after I prayed to him and I was never more happier to sing that song in my entire life.
Will __s_s still love me in the morning?
...the next generation
Not sure who invented it, but presently, it has been a number of years ago now that I have heard someone express that "a generation is ...
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The LORD spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said:
"Do not call conspiracy
everything that these people call conspiracy ;
do not fear what they fear,
and do not dread it.
The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,
he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread, and he will be a sanctuary;
but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
a trap and a snare.
Many of them will stumble;
they will fall and be broken,
they will be snared and captured."
Bind up the testimony
and seal up the law among my disciples.
I will wait for the LORD,
who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.
(8) Now I know! (8)
You ain't seen Nothing of the MOST Holy Ghost yet! :P
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