Adi Da Samraj writes:
Mind is “artificial intelligence”. Mind is the first “robot” that human beings ever made. In the usual discussions of such matters, artificial intelligence is presumed to be something generated by computers. In actuality, however,
language is the first form of artificial intelligence created by human beings.
from The Ancient Walk-About Way, by Adi Da Samraj, page 55
Adi Da then goes on to discuss the limitations of “mind”, and then defines real intelligence: “Real Intelligence is tacit (or intrinsically wordless) living
existence.” –page 56
So then what? What happens if you’re really intelligent? the World-Friend, Adi Da continues: “If you are sensitive to the actual nature of your experience, you discover that conditionally manifested existence is disturbed and limited and unsatisfactory. Therefore, you actively look (even if only inwardly, in a feeling sense) for Something Greater.” Ibid.
This reminds me of a Disney story, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” from the movie Fantasia, in which Mickey Mouse, as that apprentice, decides to cast a spell so the broom works for him (his robot!) and then things get out of hand and that’s rather amusing. Disney got the story from the German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
“The earliest known written version of the tale was penned by the Greco-Roman satirist Lucian of Samosata (c. 120–180 AD). In his work The Lover of Lies, a character named Eucrates recounts his time studying under an Egyptian magician.” —article “The Greek writer Lucian provided some of the details about the sorcerer being a priest of Isis and learning his art in the catacombs under the city of Memphis.”–article2