EW Bullinger writes in the preface of the companion bible (his study notes system & analysis),
The structures referred to on p. vii make The Companion Bible an unique edition, and requires a special notice.
They give, not a mere Analysis evolved from the Text by human ingenuity, but a Symmetrical Exhibition of the Word itself, which may be discerned by the humblest reader of the Sacred Text, and seen to be one of the most important evidences of the Divine Inspiration of its words...This distinguishing feature is caused by the repetition of subjects which reappear, either in alternation or introversion, or a combination of both in many divers manners.
This repetition is called "Correspondence", which may be by way of similarity of contrast; synthetic or antithetic.
Bullinger then goes on to describe how he used the letters of the alphabet to mark the words, phrases, verses, paragraphs, etc. of the text of the bible. As I was thumbing through this bible I noticed all this and marveled to myself how very like a computer program all this was. So if we just hack the nuances of this master program and transfer the code to an executable program on a suitably complex machine...
In Steampunk terms it would be like having the pattern of the bible entered into punch-card form and the truckloads of cards were brought to the great Napoleon Mainframe Difference engine in Paris, or the ultra-secret Big Brother of MI6 in London, and not to be outdone, one could read the cards into a Hollerith reader electrically attached to the new relay-based switching Mainframe of the German Confederacy sponsored national Computer Science Labs in Munich...
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Had to look up Hollerith. From Jacquard loom to data storage and beyond.
Following on the concept of bollingers approach to analysis being likened to a computer program;
I was thinking that you could then present the gospel to the AI like a customization preset on your domestic helper robot. Thinking in a Kurzwellian way. "downloading moralism"
This could be a great path to explore in Sci-Fi. "botnets & religion" "mission virus" "the robot missionaries" etc. ad naseum
These are definitely memes that can be explored in the SciFi RPG variant, "Transhuman Space". I will explore all these and many more ideas when I finally get the Traveller Game campaign started. Do a wiki search on Traveller the RPG to see philosophical reasons the Third Imperium is socially against Robots, AI, Bioroids, Nanotech, etc. In my Traveller Campaign, I still plan to deal with these issues in the course of play so that we can stimulate interesting discussions along with the normal entertainment value of playing an RPG.
On a more serious note, I do plan to get into some study of AI et al and when I have time to post my observations it will be here or linked from here.
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