Atrificial intelligence (AI)

Rudolf Steiner provides the 20th century with a comprehesive cosmology that details his understanding of the influences of spiritual beings in the physical world. He also describes the physical and psychological evolution of the Human being. Human recognition of the spiritual legacy in our intelligence offers the possibility to significantly advance human creativity and development. Steiner hints at this potential with his indications about imagination, inspiration and intuition but he rarely speaks about their misuse.

For those who haven't been following the development of the UFO/UAP (Unidentified Anomolous Phenomena) disclosure movement in the U.S. recently, modern culture stands at the frontier of a significant new chapter in Human social development, when 'non-human intelligence' (NHI) may well be revealed as an 'objective fact' to the world.

The ontological challenge presented by the way NHI disclosure is happening, is that most modern humans have a very limited conceptual understanding of non-physical influences upon them and the materialistic impulses that underly modern social cognition limit perception and understanding.

Historic concepts of angels and demons along with the idea of 'advanced', physical, extraterrestrial' beings are being re-introduced in the disclosure narrative in an effort to explain the 'unusual' physical and psychological phenomena that humans have been witnessing since WW2.

Anthroposophical insights into the Disclosure movement provide a different understanding of the NHI narrative and provide an opportunity to more clearly discern the influences of non-human inteligence and Human action in these phenomena.

As artificial intelligence has become more popular, it has highlighted and reinforced the type of intelligence that humans are most aware of; the intellect. It is interesting to note that artificial intelligence defines intelligence as "the mental capacity to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment, encompassing problem‑solving, critical thinking, quick learning, and grasping complex ideas."

AI equates "mental capacity" with

Logic and reasoning. Rudolf Stiener describes this reliance on the intellectual aspect of modern Human consciousness as "dead thinking".

In a world devoid of spiritual qualities, 'mental' capacity has a very limited meaning.

Steiner suggested that intelligence has four aspects, intellect, imagination, inspiration and intuition, that have their own lawfullness that can be develloped through esoteric exercises.

As a child grows, the capacity for personal intelligence also develops. The incarnation process is clearly defined by Steiner, and is foundational in Waldorf educational practice.

The seven year periods that mark the development of the physical, etheric, astral body of the human being is reflected in the intelligence of the child as they grow. At twenty one, in an 'architypal' human being, the intellect is generally capable of functioning.

Steiner speaks about imagination, inspiration and intuition many times in relation to the experience of "crossing the threshold' into the 'spiritual world'. If the human soul is capable of intellectual consciousness at 21, 'imagine' what three more (conscious) seven year periods of human development might offer...

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