Let me first of all try to define intelligence. It is a fact that there is no unanimous agreement on the concept of intelligence but curiously the scientific community has started to create “intelligence”. To me, as always the theoretical underpinnings have to be strong before attempting to implement anything. Retrofitting theory in accordance with experimental results will only result in a number of fixes and the eventual abandonment of the theory. So we need to first have a good understanding of the concept of intelligence.
I consider intelligence as existing in two different levels. At the lower level, it is the ability to correctly analyze something to the extreme and at the higher level it is the ability to see the real but not patent interconnections among things.
Let us consider the lower level intelligence. Someone able to analyze something in detail is a very good planner. Planning is important for a number of tasks to succeed. Such a person is also able to make good inferences and has a very good ability at comprehending things. He is able to make right conclusions given a piece of information and based on that information.
What separates a person operating only at lower level intelligence from a person who acts at a higher level is the ability to more often make right conclusions from incomplete information. He is able to make a logical argument from such information. Something is logical if the explanation for it is sound. Being sound implies the argument is also valid.
For example consider the argument of the agnostic i.e the belief that it is impossible to know whether God exists or not.
Experience of divinity is subjective.
Subjective experiences only cannot be trusted as proof.
So there can be no reliable proof of divinity.
The problem with this argument is the second premise that subjective experiences only cannot be trusted as proof. There are two requirements for an acceptable proof. One is, all have to agree and the other the proof has to be of enduring nature. If proof is not of enduring nature, it ceases to be a proof. So objectively proving something is no guarantee that it constitutes a sound proof.
Any verifiable physical evidence is in accordance with physical laws and the laws represent the mechanics of the universe. If there is a purpose, the mechanics themselves can change based on the purpose and so will the physical laws. The physical or objective evidence ceases to be trustworthy.
All the objective proofs have their source as subjective experiences. So if some objective proof stood the test of time, it is because of a trustworthy subjective experience but if it did not , then the subjective experience was not trustworthy. So the purpose of an objective proof is only to reflect how trustworthy a subjective experience is. So the conclusion that there can be no reliable proof of divinity on subjective experience alone will not be correct because some subjective experiences are reliable.
The example discussed above shows that dismissing all subjective experiences is a flawed approach in knowledge acquisition. In fact judgement of such persons dismissing all subjective experiences cannot be as trustworthy as those of one who has authentic subjective experiences. The latter is more able to make sound arguments.
Now we can see that the current approaches to AI are geared towards developing lower level intelligence and cannot reach the level of really intelligent humans i.e., those who have deep intuitions. We will see how spiritual energy can only be of help in this regard.