Christian Influences In William Blake's The Ancient Of Days

Lynn White was born in 1907 and died in 1987. She was a professor of medieval history at Princeton and Stanford. She researched the early influences of the environmental crisis.
The Bible asserts man’s dominion over nature and establishes a trend of anthropocentrism. Christianity makes a distinction between man and the rest of creation, which has no soul or reason and is thus inferior. Christianity has rashly insisted that its myth really happened in time and we stand amid the debris of our inherited religion. He concludes that applying more science and technology to the problem won’t help, that it is humanity’s fundamental ideas about nature that must change; we must abandon superior contemptuous attitudes that make us willing to us it for
Urizen (Blake’s mythological figure of reason and law) crouching in a circular design with a cloud-like background. His outstretched hand holds a compass over the darker void below.
Christian Influences: Middle age technology was viewed with little suspicion by church doctors. Technology generally demonstrated that man was made in God’s image and God was the ultimate engineer. Political democracy was a result of the Reformation (religious democracy). A more democratic society meant more educated, i.e., more who would innovate and contribute the scientific forum.
The Eadwine Psalter: Illustration of Psalm 63 (64) showing evildoers content to use the primitive whetstone. The Godly use the new and more advanced
Robots will always be too simple to be conscious. Average human being has 37.2 trillion cells. But if it only a matter of quantity that makes the mind a special quality that it only suggests that achieving such complexity will take a long time.
Simple does not mean ineffective. In fact, we can overcome complexity with simplicity for example – the artificial heart valve or artificial hip easily containing billons of cells has been replicated with simple plastics and alloys.
The Cog Project: A Humanoid Robot
Robot that’s interesting independent of whether or not it is conscious. Cog is a life-sized robot underway at MIT.
“Growing Up” into consciousness? It was based on the hypothesis that human-level intelligence requires gaining experience from interacting with humans, life human infants do. Example? Language. It might be vastly easier to make an initially unconscious or non-conscious infant robot and let it grow up.
Sensing the environment – Path to Consciousness. It contained many sensory feedbacks to encourage learning through it sense, through empirical reality. There is clearly an importance of having a body. For example: pain avoidance system, heat sensors, current sensors, funny bones, and sensitive membrane on fingertips – send signals to control