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What is the nature of artificial intelligence? How does it compare with human intelligence, emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence?
These are important questions to ask and understand as AI becomes more pervasive. Most of the people alarmed about advances in AI have little sense of what human intelligence is, as they live and operate in a world of patterning and utility.
So this talk compares and contrasts various kinds of intelligence, also using numbers, music, time and sense of self as examples.
This discussion was the first part of a talk given at the Scientific and Medical Network - scientificandmedical.net/webinars/. The second part, which uses imagery from Dante's Divine Comedy is online here - youtu.be/iF_woXLBIZ0.
What is the nature of artificial intelligence? How does it compare with human intelligence, emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence?
These are important questions to ask and understand as AI becomes more pervasive. Most of the people alarmed about advances in AI have little sense of what human intelligence is, as they live and operate in a world of patterning and utility.
So this talk compares and contrasts various kinds of intelligence, also using numbers, music, time and sense of self as examples.
This discussion was the first part of a talk given at the Scientific and Medical Network - scientificandmedical.net/webinars/. The second part, which uses imagery from Dante's Divine Comedy is online here - youtu.be/iF_woXLBIZ0.








![History, record, teaching, creed? How to read the Bible, according to William Blake
“Why is the Bible more Entertaining & Instructive than any other book?” William Blake asked in a letter. His answer is that this text, along with some others, is not a work of history or record, theological analysis or moral teaching, but inspiration. He continues: “Is it not because they [he has all inspired texts in mind] are addressed to the Imagination, which is Spiritual Sensation, & but mediately to the Understanding or Reason? “
As he puts it in another place: “The Hebrew Bible & the Gospel of Jesus are not Allegory, but Eternal Vision or Imagination of All that Exists .”
In this talk, delivered to a seminar at Virginia Theological Seminary, Mark Vernon explores Blake’s attitude towards the bible and unpacks how he depicted a series of gospel scenes including the woman caught in adultery, the entry into Jerusalem, the crucifixion and the resurrection.
Each in their own way present Blake’s central conviction about Christianity and the significance of Jesus – a mystical reading: namely that God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is, and that in Jesus, human beings can see that they, too, share in the human form divine. History, record, teaching, creed? How to read the Bible, according to William Blake](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hz6SLf9OJQ0/mqdefault.jpg)

