Pitting the Human Mind against a Computer

 Pitting the Human Mind against a Computer

A reasonable comparison of God’s creation to man’s invention, and which one will win the war of eternal justification.  

Take a look at some of the components in each and discern the functions that are synonymous with the ingenuity of man’s industrious capabilities or the divine plan God has in mind.  

The news of Artificial Intelligence that will change the direction of scientific exploration into medicine, teaching mathematical problems, exploring the depth of unknown capabilities, and beyond the thought of man never heard of before.  The parts that make up these machines have become so intricate that it is hard to imagine getting enough technology small enough to fit in a computerized wrist watch.  In the early 1980’s IBM had a computer the size of a large room or prototype of needed space to hold the many pieces of equipment to produce punch-cards with information for printing out documents.  Not too many years from a giant machine to a wrist watch doing far more intricacies never dreamed of before.   

All the information needed to perform most of these activities are dependent on the microchip technology.  What was needed before these microchips came into being was created known  as a motherboard to which one or more chips are attached.  From this type of creativity we can’t even realize the future led by electronic machinery for everything we need to live.  

But, now let’s take a serious examination into the counterpoint of knowledge and the human brain that controls more than just a thought process.  Has anyone looked into the most ingenious workings of the human brain?  Its clever way of working problems out for the outcome of a problem and as always creates the best manner of approaching an attack on the human body, which is the captain of the ship we call God’s temple.  

Think for a moment of the collection of arteries, blood vessels, bones small and large, muscles and tendons all attached to one another, and aligned throughout the body allowing movement and guiding the many joints that depend on freedom of flexibility.

That is just the beginning of this machine made without bolts and metal parts to hold it together.  It was created by God, and has all the necessary components to withstand most outside interferences.  When something occurs to upset the proper functioning there are anti-destructive emissaries ready to go to battle the attacking enemies.  These are the white blood cells and when a serious, or in some cases not too serious, injury confronts the proper functioning they immediately go to work, restoring the body to a complete organism.  

When an artificial mechanism, such as a computer stalls or as we know “the computers are down,” we need to call in a technician who may know what to do.  A human who experiences a similar condition, we call in a physician if the white blood cells are at an impasse. 

Did you ever stop to think how complex the body we live in is?  We have so many parts that have worked for years without much or any needed repairs.  Of course, hearts go bad or cancer takes over in a lot of cases, but as a rule the heart beats so many times in the lives of quite a few, that we may lose count to the total beats it pumps blood throughout our body.  

The one important difference between artificial intelligence and the human heart is ours understands compassion, the machine is ambivalent to human feelings.  We know how to forgive, the machine overrides any outside interference with its programmed design of operation.

Machines are prone to disease such as rust, broken parts, magnetic interference, and destruction by electrical malfunction.  Humans are protected by God’s grace, his deep and abiding love for each of us, and a guarantee after all our work is finished, we keep on living in heaven.  Machines end up in a machine graveyard.  

Who is the ultimate winner in this pitting of the minds?

Ralph B. Hathaway