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Premium Member AI AND HUMAN MIND MATTERS

Thoughts beyond humans
AI is so full blown
A lot of people want to leave AI alone
Mind matters versus competition in the right thinking
What one thinks is different from AI
Idealistic superior
Words advanced
Human Intellect test
Common sense wins out in Human sense, but AI is programmed to be precise
Electronic component with technological values
The Human mind can never out maneuver AI
AI is ahead of its time in futuristic expectations

A human mind can challenge AI, but would a human mind win in resources given?
The theory of Conquer, Challenge and Exchange
Information absorbed through AI compared to the Human mind
Perhaps more established and tabulation being more sophisticated
Turning complexity into Simplicity
Calculation determined in quickness
AI would do it smoothly and precise with ease
The human contrast being slower element meaning the mind wouldn’t be as sharp as AI

The human mind might out match AI in not knowing what the human is thinking without penetrating the mind in what AI already knows and thought of
AI and human mind matters
Concentration will always be a challenge
Think wisely

Premium Member Inevitability

Inevitability 
David J Walker

This is how I turned 20 
With plenty of time left to 
Opine its wastings awaiting 
The sun to set
	The weekend to come 
Christmas 
	Birthdays 
		Summer vacations that
Race past the calendars edge 

This is how I turned 30
Looking over a shoulder
	To see who is catching up
Who is making up 
	For past mistakes and 
Begging for retakes for the many 
	Wasted opportunities 

This is how I turned 40 
Feeling the changes 
	To my body and
The beliefs scattered over 
The spectrum of 
	What is or
Is not to come

This is how I turned 50
Bracing for mortalities 
	Callings 
Hoping that believing
May facilitate the stalling 
	Of recompense 
On the final tabulation 
To come  and,  oh 
	Tipping is encouraged

This is how I turned 60
In quiet contemplations
	reflections
Concerning the reality of or 
The days  of coruscate refraction
that belong only to me 

Is this how I will turn 70
in the insouciance
	of what will be 
is the outcome inevitably 
predictable

Mathematically, Yours

I need you, you need me
We need each other
In shared realities
Passion so hot 
As nurturing chai tea
Together we form 
Such sweet sensuality

Show me now 
Where love would begin
Because seeing you here
I forget to breathe in
No way could we be 
Disobedient sin
But a burning desire 
Without knowledge 
Of its inception

So young we were
Filled with virtue to represent
No organized tabulation
No strategy to misrepresent
This feeling I admit 
Was inconceivably never meant
Though this glorious relationship 
Could be no accident

As life forges a path 
Through temper and wrath
Still through love is how 
We'll get to the math

That logically 
Two plus one may still make three 
Simply this will never be
Merely one plus one make two 
Makes romantic 
Mathematically


Premium Member Are We But Puppets

Are We But Puppets?


Are we but puppets,
residents of some alien ant farm,
playthings of some cosmic giant’s child,
black flies in the eyes of armless men?

Could we be more, or less
than we are?
Dare we challenge our station in life,
buck the system of caste and outcast?
Who will remember us?
Not us, but us
the whole of who and what we are
or tried to be?

Are we more than the blade of grass
less than the rising sun
kinder than the stinging gale
more harsh than sprinkling rain?

Will our time be marked
a ledger entry debit/credit
a question-less
pass/fail test?

A tally of our worth
or lack thereof
a tacit tabulation
scanning life
death to birth.

Are we,
or are we not,
worthy.


John G. Lawless
6/9/2013

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