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February 8th, 2013
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Welcome to the Global Watch Weekly Report When the serpent told Adam and Eve that if they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, that they would become as gods, he plant a generational desire into the psyche of human consciousness. This desire would maintain a stranglehold on future generations and cause significant conflict between human beings and God. In some cases the conflict reached the point where God literally had to destroy man’s agenda as was witnessed at the Tower of Babel and the destruction of the ancient world during the antediluvian era. However the events of the modern day have superseded the past in terms of evil and so it stands that we could over the course of the next few decades witness some of the most horrific judgements by God for trying to usurp his role as the God of all gods. In regards to the technology acceleration most people remain in the dark, completely oblivious to the true potential of converging technologies, there is a small portion of the population that understands the power that science currently holds over society. This power has been well known for a very long time, but now rapid development is spurring on massive technological expansion. Converging technologies have unlimited potential. Their creation would undoubtedly alter the world dramatically. This is in fact a high altar of spiritual importance and some of the most serious scientists realize this fact. The future is normally perceived as a distant event but given the current speed of progress the future is no longer tomorrow: it is today. The possibility of a technological Singularity where humans and machines merge has been given serious consideration by high-ranking individuals, institutions, and governments. These entities are not foolish enough to ignore the potential power inherent in further scientific development. Who do you think has been developing the technology that has led up to this point? Behind powerful technologies lie powerful people and meticulous planning. An integrated system of government, military, academia, Non Government Organizations (NGOs), and corporations exists as the creative force behind emerging technologies. The fact that much planning has taken place to ensure a profitable Singularity has not been a focus of media attention. We, the people, aren't supposed to realize this. The closest explanation given in terms of research and development has come in the form of short news clips, each outlining the latest scientific breakthrough. Ray Kurzweil has addressed the Singularity and related topics in his various talk show appearances, every time plugging his latest book. It is in this way that people are given a general idea of what the Singularity is, but simply reading one of Kurzweil’s books is not enough to get an understanding of what this issue is all about and who is behind it. To gain real insight one should look to the many official whitepapers which have been written up by governmental institutions, NGOs, private corporations, and think tanks. Singularity presents a true danger to the human race, and the most renowned Singularity advocates freely admit to this fact. Artificial intelligence already has its own cult following. This cult mainly consists of researchers who are searching for a way to bring their god to life. They are operating on the belief that the possible benefits of creating artificial intelligence outweigh the dangers. Yes, humanity could be, and likely will be eradicated, but something better will take its place. The attainment of superintelligence is well worth the cost. This is something that is consistently stated by the artificial intelligence cult. This edition focuses on the debate regarding tranhumanism and the coming Singularity.
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TOWARDS THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST Imagine a world where human beings and machines are one in the same. What if the computers that we now manipulate externally could one day become part of us; our bodies engineered to become less emotion driven, and more streamlined for function and data. Is this a world in which you would like to live? And, what if such a world existed, but you were unable to take part in such “upgrades”. What would happen to those who were unable or even chose not to participate? How would these new “humans” regard those with normal biological make-up?
“I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?....Behold, I teach you the overman. The overman is the meaning of the earth.Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.”
Nietzsche introduces the concept of the Übermensch in contrast to Christianity: “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” proclaims the Übermensch to be the meaning of the earth and admonishes his audience to ignore Christianity which claims that there is a better world elsewhere to escape to. The turn away from the earth is prompted, he says, by a dissatisfaction with life, a dissatisfaction that causes one to create another world in which those who made one unhappy in this life are tormented. The Übermensch is not driven into other worlds away from this one.
If these concepts seem straight out of science fiction, that is because they are. Books, film, and television have explored the concept of the bionic being for decades. But is it really all that far fetched? Scientists don’t think so. In fact, there is a growing trend amongst researchers to ponder what they consider to be an inevitability for humanity. It has a variety of names and theories; Posthumanism, transhumanism, and the Singularity. One of the most famous proponents of “advancing” humans in such a way was the atheist philosopher Frederick Nietzsche. In his book “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, Nietzsche proposed the idea of the Übermensch, also known as the “Overman, Overhuman, Above-Human, Superman”.
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra” declares that the Christian escape from this world also required the invention of an eternal soul which would be separate from the body and survive the body's death. Part of other-worldliness, then, was the abnegation and mortification of the body, or asceticism. Zarathustra further links the Übermensch to the body and to interpreting the soul as simply an aspect of the body. “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” ties the Übermensch to the death of God. While this God was the ultimate expression of Christian values and the instincts that gave birth to those values, belief in that God nevertheless did give meaning to life for a time. 'God is dead' means that the idea of God can no longer provide values. With the sole source of values no longer capable of providing those values, there is a real chance of nihilism prevailing. Some commentators associate the Übermensch with a program of eugenics. This is most pronounced when considered in the aspect of a goal that humanity sets for itself. The reduction of all psychology to physiology implies, to some, that human beings can be bred for cultural traits. This interpretation of Nietzsche's doctrine focuses more on the future of humanity than on a single cataclysmic individual.
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TOWARDS THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST The term Übermensch was a favorite of Hitler and the Nazi regime, which hijacked Nietzsche's work and sought to distort his text as a philosophical foundation for their ideas. Their conception of the Übermensch, however, was racial in nature.
a picture of the Jesus of history as actually having lived a type of "Buddhistic" existence, and lambastes the Apostle Paul particularly for turning Jesus, vis-à-vis, Jesus the "Nazarene," into Jesus the "Christ."
The Nazi notion of the master race also spawned the idea of "inferior humans" (Untermenschen) which could be dominated and enslaved; this term does not originate with Nietzsche. Nietzsche himself was critical of both antisemitism and German nationalism. In defiance of these doctrines, he claimed that himself and Germany was great only because of "Polish blood in their veins".
Those who embrace the atheist mindset or anti JudeoChristian world view are the most willing to accept and promote a philosophy of engineering a superior man especially one from someone like Frederick Nietzsche. Further, atheists with money find themselves in a position to not only promote the idea, but perhaps even fund such advancement, in order to take advantage of it themselves. Not surprisingly, proponents of the Singularity and transhumanist thought have found themselves allies in high places.
Many also note aware that Nietzsche was the author of a book called “Antichrist”. In this book Nietzsche sets out to denounce and illegitimize not only Christianity itself as a belief and a practice, but also the ethical-moral value system which modern western civilization has inherited from it. This book can be considered a further development of some of his ideas and concepts concerning Christianity that can be found in Beyond Good and Evil and in The Genealogy of Morals, particularly the idea that the present morality is an inversion of true, noble morality.
As the director of the Future of Humanity Institute and a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, Nick Bostrom is a leading advocate of transhumanism who, as a young man, was heavily influenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (from whom the phrase “God is dead” derives) and Goethe, the author of Faust. Now, high society scientists, corporate giants, politicians, etc. are not the only ones getting in on the act. In this age, the most prominent members of the modern aristocracy are celebrities. Not only does the public at large tend to treat musicians, actors, and athletes as icons and idols, but they seem to view themselves as a royalty of sorts.
One of the most damning of Nietzche’s views was that Christianity has made people nihilistic and weak by regarding pity and related sentiments as the highest virtues. Here, just as in the Genealogy, Nietzsche traces the origin of these values to the ancient Jews who lived under Roman occupation, but here he puts them in terms of a reversal of their conception of God. He argues that the Jewish God was once one which embodied the noble virtues of a proud, powerful people, but when they became subjugated by the Romans, their God began to embody the "virtues" (more like sentiments) of an oppressed, resentful people, until it became something entirely alien to what it formerly had been. Further in the book, after devoting a few passages to contrasting Buddhism with Christianity, he paints
Naturally, if there was a high technology means to enhance their potential, most of them would get right on board. Which is precisely what we’re seeing today in pop culture. There is a definite move toward the glamorization of the “futuristic man”. We see this especially in the music industry, where artists depict themselves as a sort of cyborg or Übermensch.
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TOWARDS THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST So, what does all of this mean to us? Well, there are divergent opinions. While clearly some would welcome the convergence of man and machine, others are skeptical. Whether or not you approach the Singularity from a spiritual point of view, one thing is clear. If such an even comes to pass, do you really believe it will be for the benefit of all mankind? More likely is a scenario where only the disgustingly wealthy will be able to afford such “upgrades”, leaving us as the inferior beings who will be tasked with doing their bidding… which I suppose isn’t much different than the way they see us today. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology 24 is a 2005 update of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines. In it, as in the two previous versions, Kurzweil attempts to give a glimpse of what awaits us in the near future. He proposes a coming technological singularity, and how we would thus be able to augment our bodies and minds with technology. He describes the singularity as resulting from a combination of three important technologies of the 21st century: genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (including artificial intelligence). The central premise of the book are as follows: •
A technological-evolutionary point known as "the singularity" exists as an achievable goal for humanity.
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Through a law of accelerating returns, technology is progressing toward the singularity at an exponential rate.
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The functionality of the human brain is quantifiable in terms of technology that we can build in the near future.
Kurzweil asserts that medical advancements will keep his generation alive long enough for the exponential growth of technology to intersect and surpass the processing of the human brain.
Kurzweil explains how nanobots will eventually be able to repair and replace any part of the body that wears out, but relies on other methods of medical technology to prolong our lives long enough to reach the singularity. In 1983, mathematician and author Vernor Vinge greatly popularized the notion of an intelligence explosion in a number of writings, first addressing the topic in print in the January 1983 issue of Omni magazine. In this piece, Vinge seems to have been the first to use the term "singularity" in a way that was specifically tied to the creation of intelligent machines, writing: “We will soon create intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding. This singularity, I believe, already haunts a number of science-fiction writers. It makes realistic extrapolation to an interstellar future impossible. To write a story set more than a century hence, one needs a nuclear war in between ... so that the world remains intelligible.”
It would seem that Vinge is correct. Of recent times the SOINN (Self-Organising Incremental Neural Network) technology has been developed by researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A video posted on YouTube shows their robot filling a cup with water from the bottle - instructions which it was already programmed to do. It is then asked to chill the drink while in the middle of doing something else. The importance of this is that the robot was not told to put the ice cube in the cup - it decided to do that itself.
Writing on Physorg.com, Bob Yirka said:
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TOWARDS THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST “This little demonstration represents a true leap forward in robotics technology and programming. Being able to learn means that the robot can be programmed with just a very basic set of preknowledge that is then built upon for as long as the robot exists, without additional programming - not unlike how human beings start out with very little information at birth and build upon what they know and are able to do over a lifetime.”
Tampering with man's integrity is very serious business with God. It appears from Bible prophecy that man will reach Singularity just prior to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus. This is found in Revelation 13, one of the most famous chapters in the Bible.
The SOINN technology has also taken a step in this direction by allowing the robot to connect to the Internet and ask other robots for help. While this is the robotic equivalent of asking a friend for help, it makes the Terminator seem just that little bit closer.
This chapter reveals two infamous men referred to as Beasts. They are called beasts because of their inner character and the havoc they bring to mankind. The first Beast is commonly known as the Anti-Christ (See 1John 2:18) while the second is commonly known as the False Prophet (See Revelation 19:20.) These two appear on the world stage as both political and military leaders. The entire world is going to follow after them, and all the world is going to come under their control.
Tokyo Institute of Technology Associate Professor Osamu Hasegawa told DigInfo: “Thinking about artificial intelligence in the real world, actual environments are inevitably more complex, and they change quickly. So it's necessary to have a learning mechanism that adapts to the situation. Also, because new situations emerge, it's also necessary to have the ability to keep learning new information on the spot. He added they were not clear yet if or when the robot will be made available to the public.”
On the other side of the world, Dr. Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has assembled a team of nine top European scientists to build a computer model of a human brain in 12 years. The Human Brain Project is in discussion with the EU for a £1 billion grant. The project has already created an artificial neocortical column that is unique to mammals, digitally constructed using a software model of tens of thousands of neurons. Supercomputers at the Jülich Research Center near Cologne are earmarked to play a vital role in the research. Jülich neuroscientist Katrin Amunts has begun work on a detailed atlas of the brain that involves slicing one into 8,000 parts, which are then digitized with a scanner. Henry Markram, director of the project says, ‘It is not impossible to build a human brain. We can do it in just over 10 years. This is one of the three grand challenges for humanity. We need to understand earth, space and the brain. We need to understand what makes us human,”
During the time of their rule, the False Prophet directs the entire world to create the image of the Beast, or as he is now known as the Anti-Christ. Notice the entire world is involved in this project. This image is a creation of man, and it is the False Prophet who directs this project and gives life to The image. This verse follows: Revelation 13:14 "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast (Anti-Christ); saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast ... (15) And he (False Prophet) had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak ..."
The Greek word translated image means: a likeness, and literally a statue, or figuratively a representation, resemblance. This is identical to the Hebrew word used for man being created in God's image.
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TOWARDS THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST The past commentators of the Bible had no idea what was "The Image of the Beast." Many just thought it was a statue that miraculously came to life. It was impossible for anyone, other than during the time we live, to understand that The Image of the Beast is a prototype of Singularity. Man is now a creator of "life." From Revelation 13, it appears that the False Prophet is involved with science and directs a world involvement to create the image. He is evidently aware of Singularity and uses the resources of all the scientists and research centers to bring it to pass. In the near future, there will be a breakthrough in knowledge which enables the creation of the first transhuman. The False Prophet is able to harness all the resources needed to successfully produce the first prototype! Man has reached Singularity.
2045 is the year prophesied to be year that the Singularity will be fulfilled. The main objectives of the Initiative are: the creation of a new vision of human development that meets global challenges humanity faces today, realization of the possibility of a radical extension of human life by means of cybernetic technology, as well as the formation of a new culture associated with these technologies.
When the prototype is completed, the False Prophet is the one who brings the image to life. This is why many believe he will have a tremendous scientific background. Creating the image is his idea from start to finish. He is aware of Singularity, and he knows how to direct the merging of man and machine. The image is manmade, but it has life and the technology to speak. The Bible reveals that God does not recognize the image as a human being. Whatever is created by man, and although it has some form of life, it is not recognized by God as human. This can be seen at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The Bible describes the return Jesus Christ in Revelation 19. When Jesus Christ returns it will be during the battle of Armageddon. The Lord Jesus is going to annihilate the Beast (Anti-Christ) and the False Prophet and cast them both alive into hell. The Bible mentions that they created the Image, but it is not cast into hell. There is no more mention of it. The image just disappears from the Bible. The verse to show this follows: Revelation 19:20 "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."
The "2045" Initiative is a branch of the transhumanist agenda which was founded by Dmitry Itskov in February 2011 in partnership with leading Russian scientists.
The "2045" team is working towards creating an international research center where leading scientists will be engaged in research and development in the fields of anthropomorphic robotics, living systems modeling and brain and consciousness modeling with the goal of transferring one’s individual consciousness to an artificial carrier and achieving cybernetic immortality. What is more frightening is that the Avatar technology that many associate with the movie “Avatar� is a fundamental and core aspect of this groups objectives. What many perceive to be a science fiction concept is clearly and openly being pursued by the 2045 initiative. Clearly this is another overwhelming confirmation that the coming Singularity will be linked to the creation of synthetic life and the fulfilment of the image of the beast.
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The first step toward achieving human immortality is to create a neurally controlled avatar—a humanoid robot with a human-like skeleton and a set of artificial muscles and sensors. It is expected that the avatar will be controlled by signals from the nervous system and the human brain that will be transmitted via various devices. It is also possible to effect direct control of artificial arms and legs using biosignals or to control avatar behavior using mental commands. Feedback providing notification of completed actions or behavior will be received through visual channels, i.e. through the vision of the person operating the avatar. Using such a control system, the avatar is not autonomous—the human operator will have complete control over its actions and behavior. Its internal control system will be severely limited in function, serving to produce and manage simple actions and skills that will be able to be controlled directly by the human operator. The avatar will require autonomy if the human operator cannot visually control the avatar’s actions and behavior. But, in order for the avatar to be fully autonomous, it needs to have its own artificial nervous system (ANS) that can allow it to exhibit human-like behavior in all situations. With an ANS installed, the person will be able to exercise supervisory control of the avatar, i.e. to use his/her thoughts to make the avatar perform certain actions. In this case, the avatar has to confirm that it has performed these actions using telepathic methods—that is, with a mental response—or a remote visual display that would depict the performed actions. It should be observed that if such an ANS is created, the central problem of robotics will also be resolved: the creation of a robot that is completely humanoid, not only in form but also in behavior. As part of this project, a physical design will be made and mathematical groundwork laid for a humanoid robot ANS; a software-based prototype of the system will be created; and experiments related to supervisory control will be performed. After the avatar has been designed, the completed ANS will be adapted to the avatar’s system, furnishing it with the capability of autonomous action and allowing it to be operated by a person via supervisory control.
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