It Was an Accident ~ A Matter of Maths (Part 1)

Greetings Dear Reader,

One of my favorite leisure pursuits can be an excellent video game.  Perhaps your use of technology is limited to social media on your phone or you are still busy taking care of your digital pet.  I wonder if we realize just how much computer coding has infiltrated our lives.  Even my toaster has a circuit board now.

I would ask honestly what the probability would be mathematically that that the coding for any great piece of computer technology could design itself.  Recently a story burned across the internet that a Facebook AI experiment had developed its own language and was subsequently shut down.  My Son and I had a very concerned conversation about this.  There are stories out there that support the report and stories that deny it.  I do not know the truth.

What I do know is that the AI was the result of coding done by human designers.  That they gave it the power to create does not eliminate them as the prime cause of the eventual result.  I am not making a moral implication here nor am I weighing in on the future of AI.  I am pondering if the possibility of that code creating its own language without it first being created is probable.

Those who deny that intelligent design has scientific validity as a study will say that “Maybe the code can write itself because it can tap into a deep well of probabilities, from quantum coherence & entanglement up to self-organized criticality and universality”. (Nigel Anthony Reading) 

The first thing I note about this is the teleological nature of the statement.  Second is that it gives purpose to that which is unintelligent.  A single strand of DNA is over a terabyte of data just to map it.  In that the DNA is the entire code to build whatever that DNA is meant to build.

What is the probability that all that code writes itself?  I am not being disrespectful but the “deep well of probability” sounds mystical rather than scientific.  The probability well is dependent on too many approximations to be, well, probable.  It is possible but if we are going to be honest then it is only that in the way that anything is possible. 

When we consider maths we know that there are areas that require explanation and investigation.  Which explanation is simpler scientifically?  Was the code designed or did it write itself?  The next time you watch a movie that involves CGI of any kind look at the number of people it takes to do the computer work.  Ask yourself if that could be done without some kind of intelligence behind it.  I am not asking you to leap to a world dropped into existence by the hand of God.  I am asking you to be honest that intelligent design could be more than religion with science words.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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