Deeply Pondering Daniel 1:17

“To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds." - Daniel 1:17 

The first part of this verse is something to ponder. God gave them knowledge. Why doesn't it say that they "learned information from Babylonian literature"? Because that's different. 

Information: Reading that your body's going to stop functioning one day. 

Knowledge: Deeply "getting" how you're not going to live in this lifetime forever, so you need to "number your days" (and not live like a stereotypically reckless teen). A 15 year old won't have this "knowledge" in the same way a 50 year old will. It takes a soulful journey for the latter to deeply "get" this knowledge. AI's non-journeyed "information processing" can't fully help with that. 

The same goes with the "information" vs "knowledge" of "I'm lovable even when I screw up". For the deepest levels of this one especially, you need infinite unconditional love from a God to "understand" that "knowledge". You can't learn it from just "naturally reading" information on a page. 

Anyone who understands dreams like Daniel "gets" this. To understand a dream, you can't "process the information" like a computer. You need to "get it" with your soul, which God helps with.

I just heard a 30 minute "podcast" on an academic topic I'm familiar with. By AI. Completely. (2 "people" talking about it)

It's eerily good at conceptual clarity.

In a learner's journey though, there comes a time when conceptual clarity isn't enough. The learner wants to experience the knowledge on deeper levels (at least in the humanities and social sciences).

The way the mind works is that it (unconsciously) assumes a "story" for any knowledge it learns. And a good story has drama with individuality. Artificial drama with artificial individuality is so nasty.

People can have conceptual clarity on "unconditional love", "peace when things don't go your way", "becoming free from worry", or "being free from others' opinions". There comes a point though, when conceptual clarity isn't enough. One desires a unique "inside movie" of the knowledge colored with inner individuality (e.g. one's unique experience of the concept of learning to laugh at oneself).

This is another thing that AI can't really help that much with.