Artificial Intelligence From the Bible

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches as is revealed in Rev 1:20. Does this mean that there is a star (angel) for every church? My original interpretation was that these stars were the angels to whom the messages are delivered, one message per angel. However, why would a message be given to an angel, if the angel is held in the right hand of the Son of Man? Does not make any sense. Lately, I am of the opinion that each church has its own angel (messenger) who receives a specific message to be delivered to the church. The seven stars are probably symbolic of something else. There is more on this subject in my interpretation of the church of Sardis.

His right hand means that the seven churches represents only one hemisphere of the brain, the left. The messiah represents the left hemisphere but sits on the right hand of God. This means that the seven churches represent the left brain which controls the right side (or right hand) of the body.

The One who walks among the seven golden lampstands. Walk is a metaphor for motor behavior. Notice that the literal meaning of the word translated "among" from the original Greek is "in the middle of" or "in the center of." It so happens that Thyatira is the middle church and is directly involved in generating or controlling motor behavior. Motor control has to do with action selection.

Note: I am still trying to figure out why the above was included in the message to Ephesus. See this news item for more on my thoughts on this important matter.

I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;

Toil seems to refer to the search for new connections. Perseverance has to do with waiting and not giving up. Neurons in this layer wait for the successive arrivals of predecessor and successor signals. An apostle is a messenger or prophet (i.e., a predecessor signal). They must be put to the test (tried) to see if their predictions come true.

And you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary.

See verse 2:2.

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

You have left your first love. This, in my opinion, means that Ephesus is too quick to move on to other things. See next verse.

Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place--unless you repent.

Do the deeds you did at first. The KJV translation is, do the first deeds. This means that Ephesus must use feedback signals from its output side to the input side. It is interesting to note that the sensory cortex uses massive feedback to process 

Or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place. This is probably a way of saying that Ephesus must process sensory signals so as to capture their evolution over time. In other words, there are multiple places (temporally speaking) and it's important to go back and process new signals in the light of previous ones (the first deeds).

Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

The Nicolaitans used to belong to a group of early Christians who believed that there should be a hierarchy in the church, i.e., that church leaders should be treated differently than the members of the church. This verse means that masters (successors) should also be slaves (predecessors) and vice versa. This is reminiscent of the well-known Christian teaching according to which the first shall be last.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.

To him who overcomes. This always represents a signal that makes it to the output side of a layer.

I will grant to eat of the tree of life. The promise of life is always to those who are going to die and be resurrected to life eternal. This means that, although the signals generated by this layer are about to die (see Sardis) they will later be resurrected (tree of life).

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