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There is one intelligence, the self-organizing force that is the cosmos, that is nature, that is life. To appreciate how AI or Artificial Intelligence is not intelligence, ask a computer to create a chicken, starting with the protective shell, plus a yolk, the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg, and some clear goop, the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk. Chickens perform this miracle every day, all over the world without a word. Ask AI to create a chicken. No chicken – no intelligence, just mechanics. Machines that learn are still machines. In the absence of the sacred, living intelligence, learning machines, like thinking humans blind to their true nature, are dangerous. In its simplest form, the field called Artificial Intelligence combines computer science and robust datasets to enable problem-solving. It also encompasses sub-fields of machine learning which involve algorithms that seek to create expert systems that make predictions or classifications based on input data. A computer playing a good game of chess, mimicking a writer’s style, or analyzing images and making predictions are fine examples. But no chicken, therefore no intelligence, just clever, non-feeling, dead mechanics. Meredith Whittaker, the president of the secure messaging app Signal notes; “Get …