New York Times Oct 5, 2010
- STEVE LOHR
What has modern science done for us in the past 2000 years? What will the learning computer NELL accomplish? With porn on the increase at 755,000,000 websites, airheads like Sarah Palin writing, ball illiterates writing about sex, how to eat a cup cake, how to sleep, how to fight, is there anything to learn that we don't already know? In just 10 years time this NELL computer will be just a computer filled with useless garbage. It will be filled with things that the animals do naturally. The raccoon for instance. The raccoon lives outside and gets along nicely with no internet and no school. He already knows how to have sex, how to eat a cup cake, how to sleep well, and how to put up a good fight – no school, no internet, no politicians, no religion.
What we need is a computer that can figure out how to stop birth, death, disease and old age. But a computer will never figure this out unless some "person" relates this information to it. So what is the use of NELL? No use! It is simply a garbage machine that recycles useless garbage information. They are training it to learn from people who are only concerned with eating, sleeping, sex, and fighting. So NELL will only learn all language and emotions concerned with these four things, and those who want to gain information from it later will only retrieve the same information. What a waste of money. What a waste of time! Pull the plug!
Since modern scientists began speculating, nothing has been accomplished in terms of man's real problems. Science only advances better eating, better sleeping, better mating, and better fighting. But the animals are the best teachers of this. They outdo humans 100 to zero at eating, sleeping, sex and fighting. Meanwhile, man's real problem is that he gets born, becomes diseased, grows old, and then must die.
The first mistake that the modern scientists have made is that they have concluded that life comes from a combination of chemicals. They continue to try to create life. They fail every time. Why? This is a false premise. Can the scientist create even a basic non-living product like milk? The cow makes milk just by eating grass – it never went to school, never had lessons on sex, never learned how to eat a cup cake, can't fight like Bruce Lee, and never watched any videos on sleeping or even turned on a computer. Why is it that the cow can turn their red blood stream into white milk instantly, but the modern scientist cannot? There are so many instances like this in nature that the scientist cannot replicate, and the few that they are able to replicate cost millions of dollars and years to formulate.
Life has always come from life, it has never come from matter. The scientist will go on perpetually fooling the masses and taking their money with false promises of advancement. But the intelligent man will ask, "Who am I?", "Where did I come from?" and "Where am I going?" Scientists have no answers because they are blind. Their knowledge is not absolute or conclusive. One scientist will come up with one theory and it will be accepted, but 20 years later another scientist will come up with another theory and prove him wrong. The modern scientist is just a bluffer who actually doesn't know anything, simply speculation and more speculation!
Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita (14.17), sattvat sañjayate jñanam rajaso lobha eva cha: "From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, grief develops; and from the mode of ignorance, foolishness, madness and illusion develop." Every man is born ignorant and must be taught by some person how to do the basics like communicating, walking, reading, writing. So the modern scientist learns the basics just like the animals. But because the scientist remains in the mode of ignorance of the real problems of life, only "foolishness, madness and illusion" take place in the world. The only real knowledge is knowledge that will free man from being born, getting diseased, becoming old, and dying. The sincere scientist who may be concerned with stopping these four things will look into the Vedic understanding. There is a remedy for stopping these four things. The Vedas explain how to get out of this perpetual cycle. The life of a scientist remains useless unless he address these four things. What is the use of your life if you just die in 70 years? Will you remember your theories? Can you bring them with you at death? You may formulate some theories, but they are just garbage in some computer like NELL when you are dead.