I just finished reading Jeff Hawkin's On Intelligence in about two days... which is fast for me. I read Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines a few years ago and I still think that is a better introduction to computer AI and the future, but this is definitely a good and thought-provoking book. Hawkins defines intelligence as the ability to predict the future based on analogy from the past and goes into depth on how the human brain does this. I feel it's a refinement of neural networks more than a rejection of them, but I'm no expert. I'm just a guy that like non-fiction.
I guess you get anxious ... and we all know what that’s like. But I think that “ yakhal ” (Hebrew) or " elpis " (Greek) does not preclude the possibility of action - whether it’s writing about the situation, or something more (and don't underestimate the power of journaling!) Indeed, you don't think of prophets or apostles as the kind of people to sit around just waiting for something to happen. They act, but their action is tempered by the realization that things don’t look too good at the moment (otherwise why would the issue even be coming up?) So they act and wait at the same time, knowing that the fruits of their action are ultimately dependent on the Lord. And of course the Lord is known to have us do things for a while before any kind of clear result is made known. Like planting, and then watering, and then waiting, for a seed to turn into a plant. Farmers probably understand waiting a lot better than we do. They think in seasons and years, not months or we...
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