Amazing Mystery

Wow! Another early blog post. I'm truly impressed with myself. You think I'm joking, don't you? As for me, I'm not quite sure??? But at least I am sitting here and words are being formed on the page. That whole process is so amazing...

Consider this, whether the words are input by the key strokes of the typist or rendered from the spoken word of the author, the computer interprets it as language, can correct its spelling and even its grammar. Therefore, the computer must have some "understanding" of the text. It must comprehend the meaning behind the words. Is that artificial intelligence or is that simply intelligence... I can't answer that without a definition of intelligence and you can see, we're about to dig a big pit right here.

We could go on to look at cloning. I have an IBM clone computer built by Toshiba. I also have another species of motherboard built by Apple. I'm learning to love and respect both, each for its own fortes. Too bad the technologies don't play nice together and share one another's software, etc. Perhaps someday.... (sigh) Some success has been had cloning animals, and now there is talk of cloning humans. Man has been trying to enhance human reproduction for a very long while, but I really believe cloning is best left to the computers.

There is one aspect of our human personhood that no one has tried to replicate digitally or otherwise (to my knowledge). The soul, the spirit of man which has the capacity to become one with the spirit of God... that Holy Spirit we hear so much about. Jesus told us He is in us and we are in Him... spiritually. That's an honor left to human beings alone. Not to animals and not to machines. It's a mystery to me how that works, but through personal experience, I know it DOES indeed work and it is life changing.