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By James Donahue
A
company called British Telecom in England is working on
a tiny microchip that can be placed
in people's bodies that will put them on permanent record in a master
computer. The plan
is to implant this chip in the skull
just behind the eye, where it can record a person's every thought,
experience and sensation.
The
name of this chip will be Soul Catcher 2025. That is because
the company once believed it would
be ready for use in the year 2025. Some people believe versions of this
chip may already
be in use, and is being implanted in
unwilling subjects.
Once
ready, the chip will be designed to attach directly to the optical
nerve. There it would store incoming
sensory impulses. Company spokesman Peter Cochrane said the chip would
be tiny but have
storage capacity of 10 terabytes,
enough for an entire lifetime’s experience.
“This
is the end of death,” said Dr. Chris Winters, another
member of the research team. Winters
said the chip could be removed from the body and everything played back
through a computer.
“By combining this information with a
record of a person’s genes, we could recreate a person physically,
emotionally
and spiritually.”
Authorities
perceive the chip as something similar to the “black
box” installed in aircraft and
automobiles. In the event of a criminal charge, the chip could be used
to prove or disprove
a person’s innocence or guilt.
Prison authorities in the UK already are considering a chip like
it to replace the ankle bracelet worn by prisoners released on restricted probation.
The Christians will obviously see the chip as the dreaded
"mark of the beast" as warned in the strange prophetic Biblical Book of the Revelation.
The
warning in Rev. 14:9-10 is severe: "If any man worship
the beast and his image, and receive
his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the
wine of the wrath
of God . . ."
Millions
of people, especially the Bible believers, have been programmed
by these verses to be on the lookout
for something like this in the so-called "end times," and to reject the
mark for fear
of facing eternal judgment by a
vengeful God.
Indeed,
there is something even more problematic about the potential
use of the Soul Catcher chip once it
comes into existence. Writers for both the Daily Telegraph and Daily
Mail have suggested
that once the memory, sights, sounds
and personal emotions of a person’s lifetime experience goes into this
chip, what
would stop science from taking the
next step? That would be transplanting the information into a new-born
baby, thus transferring
the “spirit” of an elderly and dying
person into another new body.
Imagine
the moral and religious implications of doing something like
that. How do we go about protecting
the “soul” or “spirit” of the newborn if the body is invaded by
the memories of another person. The
scientific thought is that the baby would start life where the dead
person left off.
While
this may sound a lot like reincarnation, we perceive extreme
danger in such an experiment. If we
accept the belief that every person possesses an individual spirit and
is linked to the
light or “soul” of the creator,
downloading the memory of another person into the DNA of a newborn baby
might
create a state of insanity. The baby
could develop into a person with his own spirit, but the peculiar
memories, habits and
personality of a second person. It
would be similar to having a split personality. And who knows where that
might lead?
Carrying
such a chip around in our heads would certainly
change the way we live, especially
if we know that somebody can someday look back at all of our thoughts,
experiences and
emotions. That could be an
uncomfortable concept for anybody with secret perversions and hidden
agendas, which most of us
have at one time or another. What
reader of this story can honestly say that they do not have at least a
few skeletons in
their personal closet?
On
the other hand, because of the population growth, the speed of
communications and the fast paced
way the world is changing, the microchip may soon be an inevitable part
of our lives. Some
see it as an important tool for
eliminating the volumes of paperwork connected with establishing
identities, handling finance,
medical records, and a variety of
other things involved in daily living.
Another
dark side of the chip may lie in the more distant future.
Once the planet gets too polluted to
support life, consider this scenario. Suppose that people develop
complex computerized
robotic machines that can survive
without air and food. They could then transfer their memory chips and
consciousness into
these computer matrix systems.
The
question, however, becomes a spiritual one. Just by collecting
the memories of all of the
experiences and sensations a person has during a lifetime, is it the
same as catching the spirit
or soul of that person? Is it
technically possible to capture a person’s soul and move it from one
body to another?
If
this kind of foolishness occurs, we perceive a future planet of
robotic and computerized zombies,
going through the motions of being living humans, but lacking the soul
of the god that exists
in each of us.
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