2023/12/25

123. Nativity of the Lord

For a long time, terms such as the 2045 problem, when artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to surpass human intelligence, and the technological singularity have been a hot topic. Artificial intelligence, in which deep learning using artificial neural networks has been implemented, is evolving by finding features and laws from the vast amount of data inputted and learning by itself. Furthermore, research into supercomputers and quantum computers, each with different purposes and calculation methods, as well as hybrid computers combining both technologies, is underway, and they are expected to surpass the limits of current computers once they are completed. As a matter of fact, we amateurs cannot but watch these rapid evolutions anxiously lest they make a fatal mistake. 

This situation is similar to that in Genesis. That is to say, the first 'man' was divided into the 'man' and 'woman' and became plural, generating accidental information between them. And they took it in as knowledge and eventually made a mistake. This initial informatisation brought man's knowledge a rapid evolution, so much so that their dialogue with God at that time (cf. Genesis 3:9-13) is no different from that among us today. God coped with this crisis of humankind caused by informatisation by putting 'enmity' between man and accidental information (cf. Genesis 3:15), making it inherited. Then, about the result of the mistakes committed by the two (cf. blog № 113) and the problem of sin that happened later (cf. blog № 117), God solved them by himself being born as a human being. 

Although there are only a few people around me who believe in the event of God becoming man, there is no doubt that since that time, the unique evolution of humankind has accelerated and that the last five hundred years have seen dramatic developments in science, technology, economics, and other fields. In recent years, there has been a momentum to share the benefits of these developments on a global scale and to narrow the various gaps. 

In the course of such a world, we who believe in the event of God's becoming man and who live as those who, in the Liturgy of the Eucharist, have witnessed the birth of the Lord and experienced his death, need to complete the Mass liturgy in which we collaborate with the Holy Spirit, who goes ahead with God's plan inheriting Christ's work of atonement. And the liturgy must be the one that meets the needs of the congregation, who constantly seek clarity and the best way of understanding, so that they can be equipped with these experiences.   

Maria K. M.