Computers: J Krishnamurti' view point, quotes and inspired poem

According to J. Krishnamurti a computer and mechanical intelligence as a profound mirror and a potential replacement for the conditioned human brain. He argues that most human thinking operates entirely on memory, knowledge, and deep cultural conditioning, such as nationality or tradition -sanskaras and sanskriti.- Because humans function based on stored information and mechanical repetition, hence the ordinary human brain is essentially a biological machine. However, unlike computers, which are strictly programmed by external experts, the human mind holds the

J KRISHNAMURTI QUOTES

• ~The machine is going to take over all your thinking. You won't have to think anymore. The computer will tell you what to do, how to do it, when to do it. It will organize your life, your kitchen, your business, everything.

• ~The computer can never be free. It is always programmed. And is the human mind programmed also? By the culture, by the past, by tradition? If it is, then there is no difference between the computer and the human mind.

• ~Can the computer have compassion? Can the computer love? It can use the word 'love', it can simulate affection, but it has no depth of feeling. The depth of feeling is something entirely different from the mechanical process of thought.

• ~The computer is the result of the brain. The brain has invented the computer. The computer is going to out-think the brain. Not in quality, but in calculation, in speed, in accuracy

INSPIRED QUINTETS

Our minds, like data, we're taught to store,

Repeating facts, and wanting more.

But life's a dance,

Not just a trance,

And wisdom opens up the door.

Our minds, in this material race,

Through rote learning, find their place.

Like cogs in a gear,

They function, it's clear,

Just biological machines, in this space.

A mind, once free, now tightly bound,

To screens and ads, all around.

A wired brain,

With wants to gain,

A consumer's hum, a hollow sound.

Let screens all fade, set spirits free,

From chains of code, wild, happy be.

With minds awake,

New paths we'll make,

For soul and world, a brighter decree.