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Most people cannot be expected to know that we have discovered and have been using only one-third of the nature and potential of electricity.
The electrical manifestations of the universal energy available, as mysterious and astonishing as they are, will pale in comparison with what may be discovered in the future.
Science's great sin is that its morality has failed to keep up with its curiosity, inventiveness, experimentation and intelligence. It is common now to criticize science for following the path of "If we can do it, we should."
Whether it is a more destructive bomb, a laboratory developed virus, the automated electric “being,” or the most dangerous of all: Tampering with the mystery of life. How many monsters will be created, and how badly will human DNA be distorted, before we approach the mystery of life?
One suggests, as an old, presently discredited psychoanalyst, that humans do have a self-destructive tendency.
Artificial intelligence, which tampers with various levels of consciousness, conscience, morality, ethics and tries to replace human understanding, feeling, heartfulness and virtue, is certainly a threat to the human condition, culture, civilization, economy and religious or spiritual sentiment.
But even worse than pure, theoretical, practical science, is that decisions, which are made by businessmen, which has been devastating to the planet, will soon be taken over by soulless machines.
Raphael O'Suna
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