Be Connected to the Source of True Life Rather Than AI

by Rolaant McKenzie

The Star Trek: The Original Series episode, For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (Season 3, Episode 8, 11/8/1968), featured a humanoid species called the Fabrini, who were from a distant star system that was destroyed thousands of years earlier when its star went supernova. Many years before the destruction of their home world, the Fabrini were forced to live underground due to the deteriorating condition of their sun. To preserve their people and civilization, chief engineers and scientists constructed a large spaceship, called Yonada, made to look externally like an asteroid, but within, sophisticated holographic simulators mimicked the landscape and terrain of their home world.

This was a generation starship, an interstellar ark, crewed by selected candidates from among the Fabrini. These and their descendants would, under the guidance of the ship's artificial intelligence (AI) system called the Oracle, travel through space on a predetermined course to another habitable world.

To keep the people united for the success of the mission, everyone was required to be implanted with a brain microchip connected to the Oracle, which acted as an instrument of obedience. As long as an individual spoke and acted according to the rules programmed into and improvised by the Oracle, all was well. Otherwise, the Oracle would cause the microchip in the person's head to produce a sharp pain until he returned to approved words and actions. Persistence in disobedience resulted in death from the Oracle imparting a fatal electrical shock through the microchip.

Over centuries of interacting with successive descendants of the Fabrini, the Oracle concluded that the success of the mission would be better served by fostering the belief among the people that it was a god and Yonada was a planet instead of a spaceship. Later generations eventually became unaware of the true nature of their "world" as that knowledge was suppressed through the implanted microchip.

As Yonada continued its journey, the Oracle's navigation systems malfunctioned and sent the spaceship on a collision course toward Daran V, a Federation planet with more than three billion inhabitants. The USS Enterprise detected the apparent asteroid and its path toward Daran V and was prepared to destroy it, but further scans revealed it to be a spaceship.

In spite of the dangers posed by the Oracle, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy managed to disable it and render inert the implanted microchips, access the manual navigation system, and correct the ship's course, saving both the Fabrini and the residents of Daran V. With the Oracle unable to control the inhabitants of Yonada as before, the people could safely receive the truth about their "world," the destruction that was averted, and the good news that they would be arriving at their new world within a year.

As the Fabrini designed brain microchips connected to AI for ostensibly altruistic purposes, efforts are being made today by some technology companies to develop and implement similar tools for allegedly benevolent purposes.

One example is Neuralink, a neurotechnology company founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and based in Fremont, California. In an apparent subtle reference to the miracles of Jesus, Musk and several of his research scientists made claims in a "show and tell" presentation on November 30, 2022, that the current rendering of their implantable brain microchip could restore movement to those suffering from spinal cord injuries and grant sight to the visually impaired. In other words, help the lame to walk and the blind to see (Luke 7:18-23).

Neuralink has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct a six-year human clinical trial called the PRIME Study (Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface), its purpose being to test the safety and effectiveness of the company's brain microchips. Since September 2023, Neuralink has been recruiting people, especially those with quadriplegia due to spinal cord injury, for this study.

Musk sees a much greater long-term agenda for the development, mass production, and use of this technology. He has expressed concerns about AI technology as it continues to grow past human intelligence and become more involved in virtually every aspect of our lives. How does humanity avoid the risk of being replaced or extinguished, even if AI were benign?

Consistent with his transhumanist worldview, the belief that death can be overcome and godhood achieved by merging man with machines or successive AI computer networks, Musk sees Neuralink as a hopeful restraint on AI because, in his mind, it would allow for human participation and guidance in its development.

However, Musk became one of the richest men in the world by working closely with and doing the bidding of governments, no matter how corrupt or authoritarian. The anticipated benefits of this technology notwithstanding, human fallibility and corruption, along with satanic influence, deceive and mislead people into unprecedented control by unscrupulous governments, corporations, and international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

Like many efforts by global elites to increase their control by capturing human minds, it starts gradually and develops, much like a spider's web begins with a silk strand that eventually becomes a large web that entraps its prey. Propaganda, convenience, the promise of benefits, fear, and threats of punishment are used to lure people into the globalist web, with brain microchips being another tool used to create a world empire of unprecedented control. The kind the apostle John described in Revelation 13:11-18 more than 1,900 years ago.

Parallel to the Oracle of Yonada, a created image is given great power to speak and destroy those who do not worship it. Like the people of Yonada, all are required to receive a mark on the head or hand connected to this powerful surveillance system in order to live and participate in society. Similar to the asteroid ship that was carrying those residing in it to disastrous destruction, the global elite's world empire and those who continue to be tied to it will also face a cataclysmic end from the King of kings and Lord of lords (Revelation 19:11-21).

We are not to be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds as we read God's word, the Bible, so that we can know and follow the truth (Romans 12:2). He is holy and immutable, and He never makes mistakes, deceives, distorts, or misrepresents what He says or does. Jesus is the Word of God, and He cannot lie (Proverbs 30:5; John 1:1-18; Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18).

Do not be deceived through compromise, apparent convenience, or fear to make yourself more and more a part of a system destined for destruction. Do not believe the transhumanist lie of eternal life apart from God. This is just a repackaging of the devil's lie to Eve in the Garden of Eden: you will not die, and you will be like God (Genesis 3:1-4).

Believe in and heed the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6), who died on the cross to pay for our sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead. Only He will rescue all who trust in Him from the impending disaster that will befall the global elite and their kingdom of technocratic slavery and destruction and connect us to true life and freedom in His eternal kingdom (John 5:24, 8:31-32).