Mohammed Hijab – Elon Musk – Magician of the New Age

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seed products. salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah. What a capsule How're you guys doing?
		

			It's a nice day. And it's a nice day to comment on something which is very viral on the internet,
the neural link and obviously, brother, Zhi Shan from smart agenda has an entire video on this,
which you can check out. But let me talk about this. Because actually, when I went to Santa Clara, I
went to Santa Clara, which is also known as Silicon Valley.
		

			And I had a debate with one of the intellectuals there, or one of the people who represented a
theism and atheism debate in Sacramento, and I was in California, and I went to Santa Clara. And
there was someone who actually works with Elon Musk, who came to me and he said, he wants to have me
speak to Ilan Musk,
		

			privately, and so on and so forth. And at that time, the schedules were conflicting. I mean, I had
to go back to London, to go to LA first and then go back to London. And so the schedules were
conflicting. And unfortunately, I wasn't able to make that that meeting. But of course, now, if we
want to reschedule it, we can, and obviously, your musk or his employees, or anyone who works for
him, can contact me on the email that belongs to this channel, you can obviously go to the About Us
page or the section on the YouTube channel and send me an email with the appropriate titling. But
having said this, now, the reason why I've just thought of Elon Musk is because of the whole neural
		

			link discussion that's being had. But before we have that discussion, before I comment on those
things. Let's see what Elan musk actually said, which I thought was quite problematic. Let's take a
look at what he says. Will you be able to save and replay memories in the future?
		

			Yes, I think in the future, you will be able to save and replay memories.
		

			And this is obviously sounding increasingly like a black mirror episode. Before I comment on this
situation here with Elon Musk, I want to say something which is that you know, back in the days,
magic used to be illusionary, you used to have some kind of, you know, trick to take the bunny out
of the hat and so on. That would be magic. But I want to give you maybe a thought experiment,
something to think about. If we brought one of our smartphones, or maybe a rocket or a car. And we
transported it back to, let's say, the eighth century or the ninth century, what do you think people
would say about this instrument, this technological instrument, I'm pretty sure that they would call
		

			this magical. And the reason why they they would call this magical is because for them is completely
inexplicably, they can't explain it in any way, shape, or form. So they would attribute it to the
demons, they would attribute it to magic.
		

			And magic really works best. When the person who's doing it is able to delude innocence deceive
individuals into thinking that they can do something which is not actually possible, which defies
the scope of the empirical reality.
		

			And I think that, to be honest with you, when I was growing up, I used to watch this. You know, when
I was a kid, I used to watch people like David Blaine. And these, you know, famous magicians.
Recently, I saw David Blaine, he's, he's on the gra Joe Rogan experience podcast. And he was
vomiting out some frogs. And I promise you even Joe Rogan was felt sick and disgusted from this. And
I don't think that we have room for that kind of illusionary type of magic anymore. It's boring. Now
it's the thing of the past. So waste of time.
		

			And actually is quite disgusting in the case of the example I just gave you. But the most effective
magic I see happening now relates to people speaking in technological terms, scientific terms, so
called scientific, so cool, technological terms,
		

			in ways, which makes people think that they can do things which they can't actually do. And of
course, from an Islamic perspective, and I know from a Christian perspective as well, the
metanarrative is at the end of times, there'll be an antichrist, and this antichrist of Nissan's
data gel will literally deceive people into thinking that they can raise people back from the dead.
		

			And of course, this is impossible.
		

			But it could be the case, well, lo alum, God knows best that
		

			the Antichrist does so using technological jargon.
		

			Because now almost if you use technology, like Elon Musk has, in the clip that we've seen, you can
pretty much try and justify anything. So let's get to the point of why what Elon Musk said itself is
really problematic. And it bypasses so many discussions that are happening in academia in such a you
know, casual way
		

			Let's talk about it. So, when he was asked about saving and retrieving memories, Elon Musk states
		

			that he thinks it's possible to do so. But what our memory is really a composite off
		

			what our memory is really a composite of, because memories are not just the information retrieved
from the five senses, they are not just the information retrieved from the five senses, memories are
also the experiences or the first person subjective states, otherwise known sometimes as emotions
that we had, when we were undergoing such things. So whatever it is that we were going through, so I
want you to think of a memory that you you're acquainted with, maybe with a loved one. Now,
obviously, if I were watching the same thing, if, for example, you've got that video of you and your
son, daughter, mother, father, person that you love, and it was a really meaningful memory to you.
		

			And I watched it on a television set. Am I going to have the same experience with that information?
As you would? Of course not? Of course, the reason why is because the feelings that you had,
interacting with that information are completely different to the feelings that I have. Now, the
question is, can emotions be saved, stored and retrieved? The answer is unequivocally No, they can't
be because they're first person subjective experiences. And as Thomas Nagel says, science is the
work of third person science works in the third person. So how can third person science access in
the first place? First person's subjective experiences.
		

			Another issue is this. Say for example, we take the physicalist view, which by the way, is
unprovable through neurology, because physicalism is an assumption is a metaphysical philosophical
assumption. And you have to have this assumption in order to think somehow that it's possible to
take first person subjective experiences and save them and retrieve them.
		

			But let's say for the sake of argument, we take this view, to be charitable.
		

			And say, we put an individual under an MRI scan. And we activate, for example, we stimulate their
love center, for example, by showing them pictures or videos of people that they love, showing them
on the other hand pictures and videos of people that they hate, and tracking in the brain, the
centers that neurological centers, which activate when you know that when they are reminded of the
people that they love, versus when they are reminded of the people that they hate, you'll see in the
brain, in that mapping for the sake of argument, a certain area or certain neurons reacting in a
certain way. Let's say for the sake of argument, they react in ways call it ABC, love, whenever love
		

			is present, ABC is present in the brain, this is a neurological kind of like, you know, a reaction
to love ABC. And whatever hate is with the the the opposite whenever hate is that C D, neurological
pathways are activated and firings happen in on the mind. On the brain. Sorry. And when this
happens, okay?
		

			You think, as a scientist, so love equals ABC and hate equals C, D, right? Are you with me? So you
got the brain under the MRI, and you're stimulating it with love and hate. And you think love is ABC
and you think hey, is d c, d? Okay. Now, in the case of love, which is ABC, and the case of love,
which is ABC, the question is, is neurological pathway ABC, only present when love is present? So
David pepper neuron says no. And this is the argument and undercard for me, in the academic
literature, which I believe Smackdown is a Smackdown argument for this kind of reasoning. If only
love caused ABC, then you'd have more of an argument. But it's not the case that ABC is
		

			instantiated. Only when love is that. And even if that was the case, whatever love is there and only
love ABC is that, then there'd be an issue with saying that correlation equals causation. So there's
two layers of problem, which show us how is impossible even on physicalist grounds that emotions can
sometimes somehow be saved and retrieved and then saved and then retrieved.
		

			So, this is where individuals who who use technology
		

			may not be who may not be acquainted with the academic literature on the topic on the hard problems
of consciousness.
		

			We'll make such claims very casually. To make people think that they can actually do things which
are not powerful.
		

			In fact, it's not possible to save, let me tell you this. Now, it's not possible to save and
retrieve how you felt about anything. Because how you felt is a first person, subjective state, and
how you felt is inextricably linked to how and what you did. And that is the equation for an
experience and a memory. Otherwise, it's the same as me videoing something on my phone, saving and
retrieving what's the difference in your link, you put it in your brain, video, something on my
phone, there's no much difference, you see. So here, it's very important to note that those
postulations that are made or false, because if we start to believe these individuals who speak in
		

			this technological ways, and these scientific ways in order to really make philosophical arguments,
or at least make assumptions which have
		

			make arguments which have philosophical presuppositions, physicalist presuppositions, in this case,
then that is the slippery slope,
		

			that will lead ultimately, to believing that these individuals are worth your innocence, mental
subordination, quite frankly, mental, and ideological even subordination. And this is the pathway
		

			leading to the Antichrist from our perspective, leading to the digital from our perspective, so we
have to be careful of those realities. So the reason why this is important to this whole narrative
of the Antichrist, is because from our perspective as Muslims, that the job of the Antichrist will
come at the end of times, and will tell people that look, I'm going to be able to raise your
parents, I'm gonna be able to raise the dead, I'm gonna be able to do these things. And and then
finally, is going to ask people for his worship, which is really and truly submission, mental, and
ideological submission. So I say to Elon Musk, it'll be really interesting. You know, it was two
		

			years ago when I was meant to come and see you, in Silicon Valley, with the invitation of your, your
colleague or your employee,
		

			in Santa Clara. And of course, I'm willing to do that. Still, we can have a conversation on zoom,
and so on and so forth. But the point is, these are big questions about life and the Quran actually
has something to say about life in general and about what you can and can't do. And by knowing what
you can't do, then you can't aspire to impossibility. And the plan says this look,
		

			in the Latina town I'm in Dune La Land Yeah, Lu Baba, well, I would you tell me, Allah, those who
you call besides gods and take as gods, in other words, you worship and you give them that mental
subordination and that, you know that absolute subordination submission, besides the Creator God,
Allah we call a lot
		

			Len yaku Baba, they will not even be able to create a fly.
		

			Because even if you get the chemical
		

			things that are required for a flight to be, you will never be able to, to put in that fly first
person subjective experiences, you'll never be able to give that fly consciousness, life bearing
consciousness and therefore you'll never be able to create a fly in the first place. Well, I would
just somehow less analyze the Quran says even if they come together and try and do so. So knowing
all those things, will let us know what the limits are to science and technology generally, and not
allow us to give ourselves as slaves to such individuals who speak in scientific and technological
jargon. But in 10, nothing but magic. salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah.