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The Unknown

  • Writer: Kal Ng
    Kal Ng
  • Jan 14, 2018
  • 1 min read

With the idea of a predictive program, it is easy to imagine a scenario whereby all the possible future scenario have been generated by machine intelligence. An optimistic prospect of utilising enormous amount of data to construct the closest possible narrative or outcomes of a certain situation. Yet we must never forget that any system, however precise or capable, still have loopholes or room for error. And there are unknown factors affecting the outcome. What if these unknowns are also factored in the machine as variables? When Einstein said that God did not play dice, what he was trying to say is that in God's scheme of things there are no unpredictable results or randomness. But what if God allows within certain parameters random numbers to be generated and yet still fits into the master schematics?

Is the outcome of the fall of man in the bible a definitive scenario that is predicted in God's scheme. Can a scenario of the non fallen Adam in The garden of Eden exist? Does that even mean anything to God or human? The question still remains why we want to generate the many possible scenario for the future, if all scenario are all desirable, will there be a problem choosing? Or is this model of intelligence not even pragmatic and should not be hypothesised? I have given three reasons of why such model is developed, the model of predictive programming, and the reasons are valid for the state of our technological and philosophical development in our time. It may be best as science fiction at the moment.


 
 
 

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