Last Secret Place

The day of computer versus Man is here. We use computer knowledge hugely in our daily lives. Computers offer all kinds of benefits in entertainment, education, socializing, business and inter-communication. They calculate and solve. They store facts for easy access. They predict to a degree. Computer development scientists are working on "thinking computers". But, in fact, their work is futile. Computers can't "think" the way we do. Take lie detectors that are not one hundred percent accurate as an example. Certainly, they can gather  knowledge about your reactions to stimuli and they have memories that can't be matched by humans, but they will never achieve entering that very private place where human thought controls what actually, we do. The human mind is not entirely readable. Playing games against computers and winning without fail, is well nigh impossible. The computer set-up reads patterns in your play. It memorizes them and predicts your strategies. It draws on its infallible gifts put there by scientists, to use against you, in the play. What it can't predict is your "quirk". What you do, while recorded, and that information, accumulated, can't predict your behaviour. Your unpredictability or your mood or your timing cannot be read with absolute precision. We have emotions that control what we do, and when and how, we do things. The range is enormous and from person to person, it is just not not entirely predictable. Statistics, therefore, cannot be perfectly reliable. There's always a percentage that, while perhaps possible to ascertain, applies only to numbers and not individual people with their unique thought and feeling, qualities. The human mind is a devious creature. What it does sometimes, or even most of the time, is not what it will always do. We are not fully set in certain ways that can accurately tell or predict how we will always react. One day we love ice-cream, the next we are tired of it and desire something else. Not even we know, ourselves, how we will react in every case. Sometimes we feel like being playful and at other times, we find we are serious and thoughtful. We have a range of emotions that defy completely accurate determination. There are some people who are seemingly stuck in routines and are taken to be candidates for a "close reading" of what they will and will not do. But being unable to read those minds to know exactly what they might do, and the word "might" is the key, makes them human and not computers, no matter how "smart" the computer may be. Those humans who unfortunately have been isolated and kept from communication with others and completely controlled, still have their private thoughts, their place to go where no one else can. Those imprisoned and  away from all others may be entirely directed, but no one can take from them, their secret inner mind. The mind is free should we let it be. If the human mind could be controlled and read perfectly, without exception, it would be the day, we become less than computers. It would be the last day of Man.