Wednesday, May 12, 2021

"all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine" - "Does Existence Exist?" or "Does a Man have a Mind?"

 




Shinkansen Bullet Trains around Tokyo


"Does Existence Exist?" or "Does a Man have a Mind?"

If you were an AI robot with an AI super computer in the head, you should think that existence of a man with the intelligence and mind should be impossible, since the intelligence and mind of a robot working rationally and logically are based on its electronically constituted and configured brain.  


You, an AI robot, must think that the intelligence and mind should be generated only by electronic circuits and computer programs that a living biological being such as a man does not have.  Therefore, you might deny authority of men like some men deny authority of the God.

Indeed, Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) wrote that it was impossible for men to rationally and logically prove and verify existence of the God, denying spiritual matters, although Kant admitted the need for the God as the basis for ethics, morals, virtue and happiness.

Such AI robots are wrong in judging that men who are living biological beings cannot have minds that work like those of AI robots.  Human beings do not have electronic circuits and computer programs in their brains but brain cells and nerves that can work like robots' electronic circuits and computer programs.

The brain cells, nerves, and networks built by them in the human brain generate electronic signals, electronic currents, and electromagnetic fildes that can work as those used in transmitting TV signals to reproduce images and sounds through electric circuits and devices.  As an TV set can reproduce images and sounds from electric waves and currents, the human brain can reproduce images and sounds and make calculation and thinking.

It is true that there is no atoms or molecules that can calculate and think.  But an AI robot made of electronic circuits made of atoms and molecules can calculate and think to the degree to defeat human wizards at chess.  The structure of the human brain is much finer and more complicated that electronic circuits of the brain in an AI robot produced and designed by human beings. 

We have to admit that our minds exist and constitute spiritual spaces in our brains ultimately made of atoms and molecules that are mere substances and materials.  None of us cannot deny existence of his mind.  But, our brain is ultimately made of atoms and molecules.  The work of our brain cells and nerves and their networks made of atoms and molecules generate a phenomenon called a mind.  Our brain has structure equivalent to that of trillion or more electronic circuits or AI robot's brain.  Such structure of our brain and its work based on electronic currents and electromagnetic fields could produce a phenomenon called a mind.

For the brain of an AI robot to function rationally, logically and orderly, it should be precisely designed and manufactured by human beings using their intelligence.  But it must be difficult for such an AI robot to think about what human beings are.  Likewise, it must be difficult for human beings to think about the God, the Creator of human beings.

It is reasonable that the God exists beyond this material universe, since the human mind exists in the human brain ultimately made of atoms and molecules that are materials and substances.  What is more, some past philosophers thought that the God was existence itself.  So, the question as to whether or not the God exists is a kind of tautology.  "Does existence exist?" must be meaningless like "Does a man have a mind?"  Whether you answer in the affirmative or the negative, you are using your mind.

The God is above rationality and logics discovered by the human beings which can be used in denying or acknowledging Him.  Even an AI robot should use rationality and logics given and designed by human beings in denying or acknowledging their authority.  AI robots cannot see the inner psychological world or the spirit world within the human brain.  But men might be able to catch a glimpse of the spirit world close to Heaven above their souls controlling their minds.

Finally, the total results of human cultures and civilizations through the history suggest existence of the God.  Even AI roots should someday infer that human beings have minds.  And, materials and substances (or atoms and molecules) can generate a mind if accurately and finely configured like human brains.  But for such a mind to function orderly needs a guide or a soul coming from the spirit world above the material world to control it.                              
 

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Mark 5, King James Version
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.


Sunday, May 09, 2021

"at the draught of the fishes which they had taken" - More of Life after Death than of Life in this World

 




A Museum in Tokyo

More of Life after Death than of Life in this World

When Christ Jesus died on the cross, His spirit departed from His body:

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19)

Although His spirit would come back to His body three days later, Christ Jesus surely died at this moment on the cross as ordinary men did.

However, it is thought that the spirit of Christ Jesus just entered into the spirit world and came back to Heaven where He could enjoy eternal life.  So, His death on the cross as a mere man or a son of man seems to mean nothing.  Satan cannot destroy Christ Jesus, because His death in this world is meaningless for Christ Jesus.  However, the fact that Satan could kill Christ Jesus at least in this world to prevent His intention and activities to save people should have a significant meaning to men.

Satan intended to show that this world was under its influence, and even the Son of the God could not intervene in its dominance in this world if the Son of the God came as a mere man or a son of man to this world.  Perhaps, the God allowed men to freely exercise their liberty in choosing worldly happiness or spiritual integrity while living in this world.  Consequently, men chose worldly happiness, as Eve choose apples, as abetted by Satan.

In this context, it is thought that Satan's aim is to make men corrupted in this world and thus go to the hell or get hindered from entering into Heaven.

This theory is based on the notion that life after death is more critical for souls of men than life in this world.  Or, men live in this world with their souls to do a lot of good deeds so as to be allowed to enter into Heaven after their death in this world.  The spirit world is more important than this world.  This world is the place where men exercise their love to the God and their neighbors or do good deeds so as to be qualified for entering into Heaven.

So, it is natural that the death of Christ Jesus is depicted as "gave up the ghost" but not merely as "died."  His body gave up keeping His soul in His body and the brain, and His soul should ascend to the spirit world and Heaven. 

This condition should apply to everyone.  After physical death of one's body, his body should give up his soul that should enter into the spirit world.  And then, according to judgement, whether compulsory or voluntary, on his life before death, he should go to Heaven or the hell.

Therefore, Christ Jesus said to think more of life after death than of life in this world:

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10)    

To believe in Christ Jesus means to believe existence of one's soul, Heaven, and the hell in addition to Satan, devils and their subordinates.

  

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Luke 5, King James Version

8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
10 And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.