Mohammed Hijab – Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan on AI and God
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The prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us,
whoever builds a mosque for Allah, Allah will
build for him a similar house in Jannah.
And we know the great reward that will
not only be gained but rather
will fill your grave after your death.
Whenever someone prays there, whenever someone gives shahada
in the masjid, whenever someone learns something in
the masjid,
yes,
that will be something that you'll have on
your scale.
How are you guys
doing?
It's been a long time since I've addressed
you from this very prestigious location next to
these 2 chumps on my left. These are
the 2 failures, abject failures.
I'm here that you can't see in the
description.
But I recently came across
a video.
Joe Rogan was having a conversation
with Tucker Carlson
and 2 figures who are no doubt big
figures
in the conservative
world and also in American culture generally. They
were talking about God and they were talking
about AI. I found it interesting. Let's take
a look at this and come back and
respond in kind. They're in better versions of
itself. Where does that go?
That goes to a god. It it literally
I don't could create a purpose. What kind
of god? So, like, I I think of
it this way. So the first stage of
the industrial
revolution consisted of people building machines that were
stronger than the human body. Right. Right? So
the steam powered loom Sure. The backhoe Combustion
engine. Combustion engine. They replace
they replace muscles. Right. Right. So that's what
the machine does. It it becomes stronger than
the human body. The second stage, which we're
in the middle of,
consists of creating machines that are more powerful
than the human mind.
That's what computing is, and I would say
AI or supercomputing is just that
exponentially.
Yeah.
But that doesn't make it a god
in the sense that the machine, however powerful
it is, any more than a backhoe is
a god Mhmm. Because it can dig a
trench faster than a 100 men,
it is still something that people created. Yes.
It's an interesting video.
I think it's very interesting because I think
they were coming from different perspectives, different paradigms.
Joe Rogan is an atheist or an agnostic
from my understanding. I might be wrong about
that. Maybe he's changed his views. And Tucker
Carlson I think maybe a Christian.
So this is probably where the disagreement if
we wanna call it that because really they
weren't overtly disagreeing, although
in wording they were,
maybe as a result of.
A
God is different to God. Right? With a
capital g. Because God with a capital g
refers to what we would consider to be
the creator of the universe, You see, the
maintainer of the universe, the sustainer of the
universe,
the one with volition and will and power
and knowledge. This is usually
the definition of a God which most people
accept.
Having said this,
on the issue of AI,
the reason why AI
cannot be
even less than a God
and be conscious is because it will always
requires an input. This is the reality of
the situation.
As much as AI
develops.
Listen carefully to this please. Yes?
As much as AI develops, there's always gonna
be
an input that is required. It's never going
to have
a first person subjective experience. It's never gonna
have consciousness.
And consciousness
is really defined as a inner personal subjective
state.
A computer
or a machine will never feel anything in
the same way
as a human being or even an animal
would be considered to be able to feel
something.
Anger,
love,
it will never do so. And there are
many experiments that have been done
and discussions that have been had in the
world of philosophy
under the banner
of what is referred to as the hard
problem of consciousness,
which people find hard in the first place
to define.
That one can refer to if they want
more information about this. But one of the
interesting things is referred to as the Chinese
Room Experiment.
And once again,
I don't have time to speak to you
about or spell out how that looks, but
the point is, look, computers and software
are essentially
loops and conditionals. That's what they are. Loops
and conditionals.
And they always require an importer. They will
never feel anything. They'll never have first person
subjective experience. They'll never graduate to the level
of a human being or an animal.
And this is very interesting because the Quran,
of course, we as Muslims believe that this
is the Word of God. This is the
communication, the revelation
from God Almighty
to human beings on this planet Earth
for the guidance of human beings states the
following. It says,
in the
That all of those who you worship aside
from God
will not be able to create even a
fly and even if you come together. If
you think about
this, the parable of the fly, the example
of the fly, the similitude of the fly,
the similitude of the fly. The fly is
a living creature.
Something with life. Something
which can be considered
or inferred to have first person subjective experience.
AI can never reach
that level.
The Quran is already telling us this. It
will never
reach that level. Now, that's not to say
that AI, like Tucker Carlson was alluding here,
will not reach very high levels and chat
GPT and all those kind of things and
robots and people have this kind of thing
and cars, self driving cars, maybe self driving
planes,
whatever it may be.
But there are always gonna be limits to
that which human being creates.
And the first and final limit is that
human being will always have to create from
a material that was already put in place
by God.
And moreover,
that anything that is done by human will
be credited
or God will be given the credit for
that because he's the ultimate responsible,
the ultimate responsible one for all things anyone
other than him does
being the ultimate one.
Having said this,
I hope that Joe Rogan
realizes
the preposterous
nature of believing that there is not a
foundational
entity
that brought rise to all that exists
and that which
all that exists depends upon. And I hope
that Tucker Carlson also realizes
that the same argument that he applied to
AI
can be applied to his
idea of Jesus
as being God.
The same limitations that AI have
to being God are the same
that anything else would have.
That's why Islam is the religion of truth.
I invite you both to it, Taka and
Joe.
Sisters in the slam net from Norway are
establishing a Masjid, a dawah center.
Establishing a Masjid to convey the message of
Islam is one of the best deeds a
Muslim can do. There's a huge need for
it in Norway. You know this and I
know this, so that makes the reward even
greater.
So give generously and Allah
give you even more.