Kinetic Action by Youths in Brussels

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This is a follow-up to the report on the Brussels riots posted here several days ago.

First, a subtitled video report on the kinetic incidents involving “Belgian” “youths”. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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Below is an article from the French-language Belgian daily Le Libre, also translated by Gary Fouse:

The female police officer beaten during the protest in Brussels feared for her life: “Without my protective clothing I probably wouldn’t have survived”

January 15, 2021

Fortunately, the policewoman feels better today.

The demonstration in tribute to the young Ibrahima on Wednesday evening gave way to riots and scenes of extreme violence. Among the videos disseminated that evening, we can see a policewoman being kicked while she is still on the ground. If she is almost recovered today, nevertheless she had to be hospitalized because she showed signs of paralysis. The day after her attack, the officer recounted the events to our colleagues from Nieuwsblad. “I have just gotten out of the hospital. Last night the tingling sensation in my legs disappeared. I still have pain all over but the pain medication relieves it. I am covered in bruises, but I will probably make a full recovery.”

Kelly, mother of a little 9-year-old boy, was called in for backup after she had finished her service after the incidents in progress in Schaerbeek [district of Brussels]. The policewoman explains that a group of rioters rushed her and her colleagues as they were trying to secure a street. She lost her balance and wound up on the ground; for several seconds she was kicked in the belly and face. “Suddenly, I heard a man scream. He asked them to stop and told them that I was a woman, not a man. It was a resident of the district, a Moroccan, I believe. He saved me from these young men by intervening. My colleagues were able to get rid of the attackers and immediately took me under their wing. I am very grateful to this man and to my colleagues. If I hadn’t been wearing my robocop protective clothing, I probably wouldn’t have survived,” she confides.

Following these events, during which 15 police officers were injured in total, Kelly explains that she has lost all of her motivation. She asks herself if she still wants to be a police officer in Brussels, a city where respect for the uniform is lost, according to her. “The prosecutor’s office doesn’t pursue these cases, and the judges give out ridiculous punishments. We are not supported. The motivation is still there, but more than ever, we have the impression of being alone, abandoned by politics and justice. This demonstration should never have been authorized,” she laments.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/17/2021

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Motorcycle enthusiasts associated with the Hells Angels club in Quebec were fined $32,000 for gathering in violation of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Meanwhile, dozens of people were fined for throwing illegal parties in restaurants in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.

In other news, at least 19 people were shot and four were killed in gun violence over the weekend in Chicago.

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To the Italian Government: “You Guys Are All Buffoons”

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I’m not aware of its full context, but in the following video, a small businessman in Italy excoriates the government for its devastating actions during the COVID-19 “pandemic”.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/16/2021

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Thousands of demonstrators marched in Vienna to protest the Austrian government’s lockdown measures. Meanwhile, eleven people were arrested in an anti-lockdown protest in the British city of Birmingham. Lockdown protesters were also arrested in Toronto.

In other news, more than 15,000 illegal migrants attempted to cross the English Channel into the UK during 2020.

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Death After Vaccination in the Diepholz District

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An 89-year-old woman in Lower Saxony died “with vaccine” last Wednesday.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Weser-Kurier, a daily that serves Bremen and Lower Saxony:

89-year-old vaccinated against Corona — an hour later, she was dead

In the Diepholz district there was a death on Wednesday a short time after a corona vaccination. An 89-year-old from the “Haus am Richtweg” retirement home in Weyhe died about an hour after receiving the first vaccination. Whether there is a connection between the vaccination and the death of the elderly woman is now being examined, said District Administrator Cord Bockhop.

The 89-year-old was among a total of 315 people who were vaccinated with the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday in a total of three senior facilities in the district. Bockhop reported that the vaccination took place around 12 noon. The vaccinated persons then remained under medical observation for 15 minutes. She was reported to have “no visible symptoms typical of allergies”.

“At about 12.45 p.m. the situation arose where the 89-year-old had to be revived,” continued Bockhop.

Two paramedics and two doctors were on site to accompany the vaccination team. In addition, an ambulance and the emergency doctor were alerted immediately. Nevertheless, the 89-year-old died about half an hour later.

The district was informed immediately, so that the Competence Center for Major Damage, in the State of Lower Saxony in Celle, and the Paul Ehrlich Institute (as prescribed in such cases) were informed. The Paul Ehrlich Institute will now examine whether there is a connection between the vaccination and her death. “At the moment the only connection that is visible to us is the temporal connection,” emphasized Bockhop.

The 89-year-old was “generally fit” and “well oriented” at the time of the vaccination. She had been informed in advance and also telephoned a relative after the vaccination and reported that she had now also been vaccinated.

Due to data protection, the district cannot provide any information about previous illnesses or other health problems, Bockhop continued.

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A Swedish Take on the Muslim Brotherhood in America

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Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Swedish blog Ledarsidorna. It was written by Johan Westerholm, an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and the author of the book The Muslim Brotherhood — Islamism in Sweden:

Muslim Brotherhood strengthens its influence over the American Congress

The Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential North American networking organization, CAIR, is advancing its position. The Brotherhood now has support from 30 American members of Congress.

Earlier in December, one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s largest and most influential North American networking organizations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was noted by Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and 29 other Congressional colleagues who together urged Facebook to take immediate action to eliminate anti-Muslim exaggeration platforms.

In the call to Facebook, examples were given of “the way platforms are used to de-humanize Muslims” as well as how Facebook stays passive in relation to this.

In the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Dingell demanded that Facebook immediately carry out the following measures:

  • Form a working group consisting of higher-level executives with a focus on anti-Muslim issues, and responsible for coordinating work within the company to confront hate groups and education against discrimination.
  • Ensure that policies prohibit whites from using the platform for events and group sites in order to terrorize Muslims and other vulnerable groups.
  • Undertake an independent review by third parties of the company’s role in enabling anti-Muslim violence and genocide against Muslims.
  • Commit to working proactively in the discovery and removal of anti-Muslim content and all other forms of hate before it is even seen.
  • Conduct regular training against discrimination for all of Facebook’s personnel.
  • Education of key personnel in civil rights issues and common words, phrases or images used by hate actors in order to de-humanize and demonize Muslims.

That the Brotherhood’s role will change and gain increased influence with a Democrat president in the White House is considered inevitable. That CAIR will advance its positions will come as no surprise. An influence that will increase, given the majority Democrats have in the American Congress.

The question is more how CAIR and Swedish organizations like Ibn Rushd, the Islamic Association of Sweden, and Islamic Relief choose to tone down their connection with the ever more pressured Brotherhood.

But that the Brotherhood continues to make demands upon, among others, Facebook, with US Congressional support, is a development reasonably to be expected. Whether that is directly through network organizations such as CAIR or via a second network which is not as clearly associated with the Brotherhood will be shown in the future.

Political Crisis in Italy

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The Italian party Italia Viva led by Matteo Renzi, formerly of the Partito Democratico, has pulled out of the governing coalition led by Giuseppe Conte, effectively bringing down the government. Mr. Conte will face a confidence vote in the Italian senate on Tuesday.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from PolitikStube:

Government crisis in Italy — coalition burst

And it went BOOM — the coalition in Italy broke, after all, it lasted longer than expected. The reasons for the end seem somehow familiar: Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ruled alone during the pandemic, did not involve parliament and did not respect democracy.

Could NOW be the hour for the Lega Nord and Matteo Salvini, by far the most popular politician in Italy? After all, the right-wing parties — Fratelli d’Italia, the Lega and Forza Italia — together make up 50% in the current polls.

From Krone.at:

The coalition government in Italy has collapsed: two ministers from the ranks of the splinter party “Italia Viva” led by ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned on Wednesday. Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova and Family Minister Elena Bonetti are leaving the cabinet of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Renzi announced at a press conference on Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies. State Secretary Ivan Scalfarotto, who is also a member of “Italia Viva”, submitted his resignation.

Renzi explained that the resignation of the ministers resulted from disagreements with the prime minister over the multi-billion dollar recovery plan that the government passed on Wednesday night. “Democracy has certain forms that have to be respected, which has not happened in the last year,” said Renzi. He accused Conte of running the country on his own during the pandemic, without considering parliament and without consulting with his coalition partners.

See also this Reuters article (hat tip Reader from Chicago):

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2021

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The French government has ordered a 6pm COVID curfew for the entire country. Meanwhile, in the UK the chief constable of the Dorset Police said that lockdown protesters need to accept that the middle of a pandemic is not the time to expect free speech and the right to free assembly.

In other news, for various reasons governments have fallen in Italy, the Netherlands, Estonia, and Kuwait. Also, Angela Merkel has finally stepped down as leader of the CDU in Germany.

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Dystopian COVID Tyranny in Quebec

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A couple of days ago I posted a video from Montreal translated by Oz-Rita about a man who was handled roughly by police for violating COVID-19 restrictions. Rita speaks Parisian French, so she was unable to make out much of the dialect in that clip.

Since then the same clip has been retranslated by a Quebecer who could understand everything that was said. The dialect being spoken is called Joual, which (according to Wikipedia) is an accepted name for the linguistic features of basilectal Quebec French associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal. Joual is stigmatized by some people and celebrated by others.

Many thanks to Sassy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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Here’s another video from the dystopian COVID nightmare in Quebec. This one shows the ingenious strategies employed by Quebecers in their attempts to avoid the curfew restrictions.

Many thanks to Sassy for translating this one, too, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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You Have Been Couped

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Our Bangkok correspondent H. Numan takes a look at the current political débâcle in the USA from the perspective of someone with plenty of experience in military coups.

You have been couped

by H. Numan

Folks, I have lived exactly 25 years in Thailand. In those years I witnessed three coups, and at least four coup attempts. During the six week siege of the center of Bangkok in 2009 I stayed well within the besieged area, at home. Pretty lonely. Only my partner, two security guards and I were there. Everybody else in the building had left for safer places. Even the receptionists. Just before the siege began I saw the evacuation of Asean leaders in the Royal Cliff Resort by helicopters. At that moment I was in the house of a friend, on the other side of the Bay of Pattaya. I was just able to leave on the last bus going back to Bangkok. Literally on the wings of the revolution. The bus drove in a caravan of taxis loaded with Thaksin supporters, also on the way to Bangkok. I won’t say I’m an expert in coups and revolutions, but I do have a lot more experience with them than most people.

What happened in America was a coup. Welcome in the new Democratic Republic of the United States of America!

We know for 100% certain the elections were rigged. The problem is how to prove it. Bigger problem: how to get judges deliver an unbiased verdict. Most judges prefer to stay out of political turmoil. Just look at the OJ Simpson case. His lawyer very cleverly played the race card. It gave him a get out of jail free card. Was he guilty? Of course. But the court preferred to rule on the safe side in a politicized trial. Just as is happening now.

America doesn’t have egg on his face; it’s far worse than that. Uncle Sam is completely covered in manure. The leader of the free world, apostle of free and fair elections worldwide, can’t hold free and fair elections itself! I’m beginning to believe the bible actually is true: the dead perhaps didn’t walk the streets of Jerusalem (Matthew 27:50-54). They surely walked the streets of Georgia and Arizona in order to vote for Biden. The dead even rose twice in Georgia. After voting for Biden, they returned to quickly vote in two ‘Democrat’ senators. The devil came down to Georgia, looking for some votes to steal.

The icing on the coup — it definitely was one — is the coup de grâce administered by Republican senators. Had they held firm, Trump wouldn’t have to leave his office disgraced. Better learn to live with it, because the slaveholders finally won. Never forget the Democrat party was and is the party supporting slavery. It was and is the party of the Ku Klux Klan. It was and is the party of Antifa. It took 150 years, but finally the South rose again!

What you experienced was a soft coup. Why do you think Biden hid in his basement? He knew he didn’t have to campaign to win. That means the whole election was rigged long before covid came along. That was just a handy excuse. Forget any notion of ‘Biden got the idea of using the covid pandemic for his own benefit‘. This kind of fraud requires a lot of planning and organization. Supposing there was no covid pandemic, he would have stolen the election anyway.

For you who don’t know much about coups, some information:

  • You don’t need a professional army to commit one. A drafted army will do very nicely, as any Thai general can confirm. All it requires is iron discipline. Every year several drafted Thai soldiers die due to extreme physical abuse. Believe me: it’s no fun being a Thai private.
  • You don’t need massive popular support, or any at all. In Thailand support comes from the elite, the army itself and you-know-who. Actually, the 2006 coup was the first in Thai history where the people supported the generals. In America support comes from the extreme left, the media, civil servants and big tech. Not from the general population.
  • You don’t need a large group to commit the coup. Most coups are like a mugging, but on a larger scale. A hit with a baseball bat on the head. Knock your opponent out before he can react. That’s why most coups always take place at night or very early in the morning. Very fast, with a massive show of force, occupying the communication centers, the seat of government and transportation centers (railway stations, airports). You don’t need a lot of people to do that. The US coup is a soft coup, which works differently.
  • A soft coup is letting someone else do your dirty work for you. In Thailand we have those infamous lèse-majesté laws. When Thaksin was prime minister, he used those laws for his own benefit. Any critic of his governance was criticizing the king, as he was the direct representative of the king. So, a lot of people were dragged in court and convicted. He didn’t even have to lift a finger. All he had to do was instruct the police on what to do. The juridical apparatus does everything else. That is what is happening right now in America.
  • The army, the police and civil servants always support the current government, no matter who that might be. Some individuals may not do that, but the institutions do. We Dutch have a lot of experience with that. The army not so much; that was taken into captivity. However, our police and civil servants more than made up for it. We didn’t have a large Quisling movement (NSB, Nationaal Socialistische Beweging) in the country. Our quislings were civil servants and the police. As you are about to discover very soon yourself…
     
    Oh, before I forget. Once the problems are over, they are rarely prosecuted. As they were humble public servants, just doing their duty. It took 25 years before the Dutch police had cleaned itself and got rid of their NSB image. Nearly all NSBers were prosecuted and sentenced to lengthy jail terms. Very few Dutch policemen were prosecuted.
  • It’s very important to give the enemy a way to escape. No enemy is more dangerous than a cornered enemy. Always, always, always give him an escape route. Otherwise, he has nothing to lose and fights until his death. Not a problem, but that could possibly incur your death. Even better, a fleeing enemy is the best target there is. Most victims don’t fall in battle, but after the battle is over and turned into a rout. Your escape route is: better luck next time. Only there is no next time. No more Republicans will be elected president. From now on, every American president will be a International Socialist Democrat.

So what will happen? At first, not a lot. Biden will mumble the oath of office. He’s turning senile, but that he can manage. Even if he can’t, that’s what you have a vice president for. From that moment onward, the president will be Kamala Harris. She will rule — with an iron rod. She has to.

Forget Hunter Biden’s laptop. Biden won’t be impeached. There is now a majority in both Congress and the Senate. Congress won’t impeach, the Senate will not support an impeachment. The FBI will investigate the matter ‘thoroughly’. That will take probably many years. The media will not report about this case at all. It must be forgotten. As quickly as possible.

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Culture-Enriching Riots in Brussels

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A “youth” named Ibrahima Barrie became the George Floyd of Belgium last weekend when he died in police custody. As it happens, Mr. Barrie had been detained by Brussels police for (what else?) violating COVID-19 restrictions.

The ensuing riots did not specifically involve Black Lives Matter, but they followed a similar template. The commotion peaked on Wednesday with the usual burning of cars and throwing things at the police. At one point a police station was set on fire. In the midst of all the brouhaha the rioters happened to encounter the motorcade of King Philippe, and there were some tense moments before the king and his entourage managed to speed away from the scene and return to his castle.

This video about the riots is not subtitled, but Vlad has annotated it with information about what was happening at various moments during the unrest. The violence continued into Thursday, if I am not mistaken.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Flemish daily De Morgen:

Riot after a demonstration for deceased arrestee: Protesters throw stones, water cannon deployed

More than 500 demonstrators gathered this afternoon at the police headquarters where 23-year-old Ibrahima B, died Saturday after his arrest. The young man was earlier arrested in the area of the Brussels-North station. At first the protest was peaceful, but around 4pm the atmosphere became worse. Protesters threw stones and set fires; riot police are at the scene en masse and have deployed a water cannon.

January 13, 2021

More than 500 people gathered to demonstrate at the police headquarters, although only 100 people were allowed to gather. Just about 100 people were stopped by police before the beginning of the demonstration. About 400 demonstrators are reported to have gathered at police headquarters on the Brabant Street.

Friends, family members, and sympathizers of the 23-year-old demanded clarity about his death. Around 4pm, the atmosphere worsened. Stones and fireworks were thrown at the police, and demonstrators shouted, “Police, murderers.” In the tumult, a window of a police car was destroyed. Here and there, small fires were set.

Several rioters moved about in a cat and mouse game with police to the Liedtsplein [square] in Schaarbeek. They smashed the windows of a police post and set fire to the office, according to Het Laatse Nieuws. The atmosphere is still very turbulent, and riot police are at the scene en masse.

The riot police are massively present in the area of the North Station. The water cannon has been used several times against the demonstrators. Officers initially tried to send the demonstrators home, but their calls received little in the way of response. The organizers of the demonstration also unsuccessfully did everything they could to calm things down. One youth of 17 was taken to the hospital with injuries. According to witnesses, he was hit by police with a nightstick, reported Het Laatste Nieuws. According to Belga, one person was injured after a fall. At the moment, nothing has been communicated by the police concerning arrests.

King Philippe

Noteworthy: Close by the riot was the car of King Philippe, recognizable by the license plate “1”. A police source confirmed to Het Laatste Nieuws that the king was in the car. The car was protected by the police and was not pelted by protesters. According to the press agency EPA the vehicle of King Philippe was en route from his workplace in Brussels to Laken Castle.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/14/2021

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The British bank HSBC is considering cancelling the accounts of customers who refuse to wear masks inside its branches in the UK. Meanwhile, according to the latest statistics, COVID-19 caused the German economy to shrink by 5% in 2020.

In other news, the number of Tunisian migrants landing in Italy was five times greater in 2020 than it was the year before.

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So Here There Be Dragons! (Part IIIB)

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The essay below is the fourth in a series by our English correspondent Seneca III. Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.,

So Here There Be Dragons!

by Seneca III

Part IIIB — Synthetic evolution continued

4. Electro-neural prosthesis (Neuroprosthetics) and Artificial Intelligence

Electro-neural prosthesis is the biomedical engineering development of devices that can substitute a motor, sensory or cognitive modality that might have been damaged as a result of an injury or disease. For example, cochlear implants substitute the functions performed by the eardrum and stapes while simulating the frequency analysis performed in the cochlea. A microphone on an external unit gathers the sound and processes it; the processed signal is then transferred to an implanted unit that stimulates the auditory nerve through a microelectrode array. Through the replacement or augmentation of damaged senses, these localised devices/procedures could be developed into a brain-computer interface, a generalised all-body system which connects the brain to a computer rather than being a device replacing missing biological functions such as motor, sensory or cognitive modality that might have been damaged as a result of an injury or a disease.

These devices are also used in animal experiments. By wirelessly monitoring the brain’s electrical signals sent out by electrodes implanted in the subject’s brain, the subject can be studied without the device affecting the results. Neural implants are designed to be as small as possible in order to be minimally invasive, particularly in areas surrounding the brain, eyes or cochlea. They typically communicate with their prosthetic counterparts wirelessly. Additionally, power is currently received through wireless power transmission through the skin. The tissue surrounding the implant is usually highly sensitive to temperature rise, meaning that power consumption must be minimal in order to prevent tissue damage.

However, assuming that the frequency requirements of a micro miniature quantum computer would be minimal, say in the range from 1 Hertz up to as much as 100 Hz we should note that these brain wave frequencies are clustered into four basic categories associated with different mental functions…

  • Delta, from 1 Hz to 4 Hz, is associated with sleep.
  • Theta, from 4 Hz to 8 Hz, is associated with hypnagogic and hypnopompic states (states between sleep and wakefulness).
  • Alpha, from 8 Hz to 13 Hz, is associated with a deeply relaxed, yet waking state.
  • Beta, from 13 Hz to 40 Hz, is the frequency range in which we operate in our day-to-day waking state.

…and if one or more quantum devices were implanted in a human brain, say in the frontal lobe which is responsible for thinking, planning, memory and judgment, the parietal lobe which is responsible for bodily sensations and touch, in the temporal lobe which is responsible for hearing and language, and the occipital lobe which is responsible for vision, would not such a being be in possession of an internal, extremely fast-response and data-rich version of the Baron’s oft mentioned ‘auxiliary brain’?[1]

The human brain is a wondrous marriage of electricity and chemistry. Neurons are microscopic power sources that build up an electrical charge by chemical means (like a battery), then briefly reverse the voltage over and over again. In this way, electrical potentials can shoot along the neuron’s major extension — the axon — and be translated into chemicals that cross the synapse, the tiny gap between neurons, to produce electrical potentials in the receiving dendrites of the next neuron. In that neuron, the process can begin again, so that the electrical potential can keep moving. Neurons fire these action potentials in unison to accomplish whatever task the brain is undertaking. The number of times a cell builds up a charge and reverses it determines the frequency of the cortical rhythms in the brain. The cortical rhythm is the sum of the brain’s action and dendrite potentials specific to parts of the brain, and specific neurons can be recognized for their involvement in forming memories. The main parts of the brain involved with memory are the amygdala, the hippocampus, the cerebellum and the prefrontal cortex.

Artificial intelligence is a recent construct, and it has not evolved over eons as did human intelligence but was manufactured in the wink of a cosmic eye. The definition of artificial is “Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.” i.e. synthetic.

‘Human intelligence’ is defined as the mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment. It is worth noting that according to Moravec’s paradox the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resource and can be extended to many forms of social intelligence.

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