> I am baffled by this degree of faith in the power of information. There
> is no evidence that people are so malleable.
>
> Hal
>
In further support of your comments, I'd add that malleability is one of the
attributes of intelligence. Obstinacy (rather than malleability) is a
characteristic of ignorance and/or stupidity.
AI, and the SI that follows, will not cling to superstition, mythology, and
belief systems as humans are wont to do. (Hurray!)
--J. R.
“Truth is a pathless land”
Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any
dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic technique. He has to find
it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents
of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or
introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of
security - religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas,
beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships
and his daily life. These images are the cause of our problems, for they divide
man from man.
– excerpts from a speech made by J. Krishnamurti
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