Attitudes

People have attitudes, and these are important. But they cannot be used as data by a computer.

The reason for this is simple - people are living beings, that operate by complicated chemical interactions between large organic molecules. The basic unit is the cell - and highly specialized cells called neurons (nerves).

The Computer is much simpler, and operates with electrical signals in Silicon substrates, that perform mathematical operations . Any input to the computer must first be digitized  (changed into a number).

Artificial Intelligence (which is getting a lot of publicity now) is software that claims it is imitating the operations of the Human Mind. This is not true at all - what it does is entirely different, but has remarkable achievements (such as translating languages and recognizing images).

This is an important difference that can be summarized easily - People and Computers are entirely different things - and cannot be made the same. And this simple fact has huge implications - that most people do not want to understand.

The Computer (especially the Phone) is amazing, and makes people feel more important. So they naturally feel it is part of them. Which is true - we always merge with our technologies - sometimes with disastrous consequences.

And we should be careful of merging with the latest ones - Television and the Computer. These are extremely powerful - and we should not use them, without understanding them.

This is not as difficult as most people think - understanding them is not difficult at all. But people want to believe these devices are part of the Mind of God. And should not be understood at all!