Whenever I see man-made humanoids, the first idea that strikes my head is: they do not have feelings; they do not have authentic memories. They do have this digital history of accumulative memory of information collected through their Artificial Intelligence systems. And I read quite a lot about the Super Artificial Intelligence that can develop beyond human limits or expectations. However, they will never have this unique experience of human memory: the human memory that is tied to emotions, and that can be emotionally and spiritually activated anytime - through triggers. They do not seem to me also liable to ever understand or experience the collective subconsciousness that connects all normal and "healthy" humans through an unseen cords of the unified soul and conscience.
Browsing facebook like a normal person, I came across a photo that was said to be of a Japanese child. It showed the time as 8:15. As a born-researcher, I googled to verify. I first searched in Arabic, and then in English. Among the many articles that I found, I picked up this one to share with you. It has a good collection of different photographs, so it is a nicely "rich" online document.
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals." -- Malcolm X.
The photo below is called the "Peace Watch": a 3.1-meter-tall memorial created and presented by a peace organization to the museum with the intention of deterring future nuclear testing. It was originally denoted on the 56th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It has been located in the Northern area of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Peace Park) in Japan since its donation in 2001.
As you can see, the clock has ghost arms colored in grey that point at 8:15 (a.m.) - the time when the atomic bomb dropped by United States detonated* and 80.000 humans were all immediately killed. The clock rings everyday at 8:15 a.m. as a reminder of the lost souls, the prevailing peace; the moving away from the painful memory and all its physical traces marked by the "latest-nuclear-test" day count.
I am not interested in making comments on the whole incident neither from historical nor humanitarian standpoints. Sometimes the more you know, the more you feel too heavy to even want to recall the information you know. However, I would ask my readers to send prayers to the souls of all the armless civilian victims of the world.
Sending you blessings wherever you are.
Aya
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*If you happen to look up the meaning of the word "detonation", you will find out that it is an explosion where the flame speed is greater than the speed of sound, and that it is louder and often more destructive than deflagrations. While deflagration occurs when a fuel and oxidizer (typically air) mix, a detonation doesn't always need an external oxidizer. Check out more here.
You can also find more interesting details here.
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