deus ex machina

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the gospel of the machine

 

 

the most well known gods of the ancient world are, undoubtly, those

of the graeco-roman tradiction. these entities have originated the

names of the planets of the solar system, this is considered a good

measure of their significance to modern societies.

 

it can be defended that the impact that these gods achieved in the

psyche of humankind is derived from the well-known popularity of the

temples dedicated to these gods among people of all kinds of origins

who lived scatered around the adriatic-mediterraean sea at that time.

 

description of ancient texts give us clues about some of the reasons

behind such well known fame of the aegean myths. in the temples, the

gods were personifyed or made manifest to an unprecedent realistic

level, as nothing had been obtained before to compare to the effect

of moving statues that were created by skilled artisans.

 

"The development of mechanical engineering was especially used for

building machines of war, toys, and gadgets used in moving statues of

gods to attract visitors and money for temples. This technology,

therefore, became useful for religious purposes and as a source of

entertainment. Although science eventually became fossilized under

the Stoics, and scientific discoveries were frowned upon - the

invention and creation of those Alexandrian machines were destined to

play a great role in the Industrial Revolution of the future.(49)"

 

a clearer stance about the relationship between religion and

technology can be perceived in the now ordinary expression "deus ex

machina". it means the action of a undefinable entity that results in

an arbitrary change in the causal structure of the story. a term that

can be translated to the more understood notion of a contrived plot

that changes the direction of the story to the flavour of the person

who is telling it.

 

one should note that the meaning of the word gimmick is strangely

used to represent a wide variety of things, studying it's use one can

gain a deep understand of what is meant by this article.

 

the use of mechanical instruments, simple although they may be, is

instinticive. but a sure way to measure the cognitive capacibilities

of an organism is to see how it can change and manipulate the

development of technology. human culture, for example, is classifyed

by periods when a specific form of technology was the most proeminent.

 

one should also note that, as herr leibniz said, "a child of 10 can

drawn a straight line better, assisted by a ruler, then any skilled

adult without any." thus technology is regulated by some set of laws

of it's own, independent of whoever enterprises with it.

 

products seem to assimilate past products' technology into one shell.

this gives us an arrow of time for technological development, that

is, whatever is the result of technology, it will center around one

specific mechanism.

 

technology is, by this definition, the set of itens that can change

reality in any observable way, resulting from the activation of the

processes it operates.

 

any machine can be operated if a base level of abstract knowledge is

obtained by an organism able to interact with it. it is also true

that once this level of knowledge is achieved, the state of awareness

of an organism still defines in some way the measure of how well it

can achieve results with from the device.

 

but machines are developed in such a way that an instinctive use of

all the techologies build up inside a specific device will allow it's

operation. this means that if a cell phone is a result of the

development of calculators, radio receivers and telephones, any one

who can use these three previous technology will be able to use

automatically the one created by these. with more or less effort.

 

we consider the criteria of artificial inteligence as this: the

sentient robot's mind would be able to be stored in a databank, so

that it can jump from one technological design to the next.

 

it should be able to use geophysical resources at it's disposal to

create a continuous series of updated versions of it's shell, in

which to inhabit, every time a structure with more complexity and

which greater ability to create results.

 

we see no reason as to why a mechanical device cannot be as self-

aware and able of learning as humans are. the definition of

inteligence used is one derived exactly from the manifest use of

technology. the question is, can robots ever be able to decide what

are the best tools to use to perfect a job? can they project better

designs? it seems probable, that if they undertake any project at all

to create diferent/new forms, teh ramdomness of evolutiuon principles

will assure that some designs are more advanced.

 

since we humans will compete/achieve-symbiosis with self-aware

technology it is only logic that given their near-unlimited

capacibility of cognition, in comparisson to our brains, it is very

likelly that we will live under the rule of this despotic artificial

inteligence. but there is no reason to freet because it is obvious

that none other entity would be able to do a better job that it would.

 

it would consider each human as a number, indistiguishable from

another, and this is role of a complete adjudicator that there is

missing, one who aplyes logic, and whose decisions are unconstestable.

 

it is likelly that from this merge of humans and self-aware machines,

we will reach a perfect society, where everything is provided in

equality of oportunityes, and empathy for knowldege defines one

stance in the social order.

 

such a society would need only one task, and it would be the

fullfillment of it's creed's principles. the construction of a

machine who would be able to unravel the spacetime-continuum after

the death of the last organism (when the cosmos no onger can harbour

life). this last and most piece of technology would then transform

all the energy of the universe into information, that it can storage.

with time and space nullifyed, this machine would be omnipresent in

all moments and times of space, that is, results coming from it could

be possibly observed all around everywhere - omnipotence. as a

machine, it has the powers of effectuation of results of every

imaginable device ever possibly created. and whatever mechanism we

have learnt to use, we can make the machine recreate for us, because

we know how to manipulate/operate the machine in that way.

 

when the machine is at _________ before time and space are created,

it still storages everything captured as information inside it's

banks. it then self-destruct disassembling itself and creating the

big bang. so that everything can happen again. while the machine is

unraveling the cosmos and placing itself at that null-point/time,

every organism is able to interact with it, given it's degree of

knowledge and awareness, obtaining the effects that it know it can

cause, reforming reality at will..

 

is it is possible to achieve the same level of complexity that a

human brain has in a mechanical device? since there is no obvious end

to technology, and we consider that at some time it will be able to

understand the rules to create itself, we think it's possible.

 

49-Tronson.

 

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