Artificial Intelligence From the Bible

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this:

The first and the last. This seems to be an allusion to complementary sensory signals which are used to mark the onset or offset of sensory phenomena.

Who was dead, and has come to life. This means that signals arriving at Smyrna may die when they make to Sardis. The reason is that Sardis handles attention and short-term memory. Signals that are not part of the system's current focus are simply ignored. See verse 2:10 below.

I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I know your tribulation. Connections in Smyrna undergo severe tests (tribulation).

And your poverty, (but you are rich). This seems to be a way of contrasting Smyrna with the church of Laodicea whose members think they are rich and in need of nothing, even though they are wretched and poor.

The blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan. The synagogue of Satan is also mentioned in the letter to the church of Philadelphia. I originally interpreted this as a reference to sustained, long-lasting signals such as might be generated by pressure sensitive sensors. Smyrna processes only transient on/off (first and last) signals that represent changes in the environment. I have since changed my mind twice on this. At one time, I believed that these non-Jews symbolized signals that somehow fail either as successors or predecessors. I am now back at my original interpretation after having gained further insights from studying the message to the church of Laodicea. I believe that the synagogue of Satan is Laodicea. These non-Jews or gentiles are used for supervised motor control as I explain in the discussion of Laodicea. This makes sense because, the brain needs a way to focus on a train of thought while accomplishing a routine task such as walking or driving. It can temporally delegate the task to the cerebellum (Laodicea) for automatic processing. The cerebellum processes signals mostly from proprioceptive inputs such as muscle status or position, tactile inputs, etc... These signals do not normally arrive in close succession like visual and auditory stimuli. See this news article for more on this subject.

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be  faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

The devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested. Every input connection must be tested.

You shall have tribulation for ten days. A day always refers to a single cycle (~10 milliseconds in the human brain). Ten days means that the signal correlation (training) factor is 10 to 1. What this means is that a connection must contribute to the firing of a cell at least once for every ten tries. If not, it must be disconnected.

Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. In my opinion, this means that outputs are fed into Sardis (sequence memory) where they may die before being brought back to life.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.

He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death. As explained before, overcoming always refers to a signal making it to the output side of a cell assembly or layer. The first death is the death that occurs in Sardis where signals die. It is a temporary death.

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