Question: Can artificial intelligence acquire a soul?

Answer: First, this is not intelligence. Let’s agree among us what we will call intelligence and what we will not.

Is a machine that can correctly calculate different moves intelligent? We have no possibility of creating a machine that will be as intellectual as a human. I am telling you this as an expert in biocybernetics, which was the first profession I acquired. I graduated from a university in the profession of Biological, Medical Cybernetics.

Biocybernetics is about devices, cybernetic apparatuses in a living body.

We can make machines that are smarter than us, that think much faster than us, but if we are defining the concept of “intelligence,” it seems that this is impossible because intelligence is a characteristic that is given to us from above and we cannot precisely create the same characteristic in a mechanical or biological material.

Therefore machines will never be wiser than humans. Yes, they may be smarter, but they will not be wiser. They will perform calculations faster, will operate without errors and the like, but they will not be able to be more intellectually wiser than a person.

Comment: Accordingly they have no soul.

My Response: Certainly. A soul is a part of the Creator from above.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 9/15/19

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According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, initially, only the Creator existed—the will to bestow and to fulfill. In order for Him to be able to realize this desire, He created the will to receive, to be fulfilled. This is the matter of creation.

As a result, the entire universe consists of two opposite qualities: the will to bestow, to fill, to love, the qualities of the Creator, and the will to receive, to fill only oneself even at the expense of others, the qualities of creation.

The will to receive does not have to bestow in order to change and become similar to the Creator. It cannot emanate anything from itself. But it can receive in order to bestow like a child would eat to please his mother, and although he receives physically in action, he is actually bestowing as he acts in order to please her. We do the same with respect to the Creator.

We receive everything from Him, but if we restrict ourselves and agree that we will receive only in order to bring Him contentment, then we become the bestowing ones, equal to the Creator. He bestows upon us because He is the very quality of bestowal, we receive with intention to bring Him contentment, and then we are equal to Him.

The equivalence of qualities with Him reveals the Creator to us, and we begin to feel Him, understand, explore, and be in absolute contact with Him.

So, the Creator has only the will to bestow. The creation has both a will and an intention: the will to receive and the intention “for my own sake” or “for the sake of others,” including “for the sake of the Creator.”

By altering one’s desires from bigger to smaller and one’s intentions “for one’s own sake” or “for the sake of others,” a person can raise or lower oneself relative to the Creator, come closer or move away from Him. In this case, the intention changes the essence of the action itself. That is the point of our correction.

We cannot change the action, but by changing the intention from “for our own sake” to “for the sake of others,” the meaning of our action can change to the opposite and become bestowal instead of reception. If I receive from the Creator in order to bring Him contentment, then I am considered to be the one who gives Him pleasure, that is, the bestower.

This is how we begin to understand our work: by correctly combining the will to receive with the intention to bestow, a person correctly forms himself, adjusts relative to the Creator. This is called working in three lines.
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From KabTV’s “Conversation about The Book of Zohar”

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Comment: Nowadays many people say that scientists who go beyond science cross the line of purely scientific research to something mystical. And they would really have a new inner knowledge open up.

My Response: To do this, they must become Kabbalists. And there’s nothing to be afraid of. There is no mysticism here.

We are talking about our five sense organs in which we attain the world around us and build earthly sciences on them, and also how we change ourselves. We broaden our sense organs in order to build another science on them called “Kabbalah.”

This science depends on changing our sense organs, not on the devices that we create to complement the five material sense organs.
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From KabTV’s “Conversation about Science”

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Question: Can I reach a state in which after the final correction of all beings and the whole world I will not feel like a created being?

Answer: No. You will still be a created being but one who totally feels the Creator. To the extent that you resemble Him, you will feel all the processes occurring in Him. This means attaining the Creator.

You cannot imagine how special and wonderful these states are. Therefore, it seems to you that it is not enough.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 9/15/19

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Question: How can we attain the highest level of our existence?

Answer: Gradually, starting from our world through 125 spiritual levels.

There are five worlds that descended into our world from the world of Ein Sof (infinity) in each of which there are five Partzufim, and in each Partzuf there are five levels for a total of 125 levels.

We will be ascending these levels until we reach the world of Ein Sof. On each level we must reverse our egoism and thus ascend. That is, all these levels mean internal changes, higher, even higher and higher above ourselves, the egoists.

Question: Where does the count begin?

Answer: The count starts at zero. When you enter a group and begin to annul before the friends in the group, then you measure everything in relation to it. This is level zero.

At the same time, you know exactly where you are, high or low, ascents, descents, and different fluctuations along the way. And so you advance along the way.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/6/19

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Comment: There are many methods to achieve the goal. Psychology is observation as well as self-observation, laboratory studies, surveys, conversations, and so on.

However in principle, all this may be biased because we are within our egoistic nature and do not go beyond it.

My Response: I cannot connect a person to some kind of device. After all only a device, that is, something that exists outside of us, can give an objective assessment of a person’s condition and his reaction. And we do not have this.

In addition, not only the subjects, but also those who read the results of the devices are within their egoistic qualities.

Question: How does Kabbalah examine reality so that it can be considered objective?

Answer: Kabbalah gives us a very interesting opportunity that allows us to explore our qualities relative to opposite qualities, egoism versus true altruism, when we go beyond the ego and attain the quality of bestowal, love, and connection. Then within ourselves we build a certain system of two opposite states and can exist in them and between them in the middle state.

Psychology, however, measures everything very clearly, but only within the framework of egoistic nature without going beyond it. Therefore it is impossible to say exactly where we are.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/15/21

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Question: What would you recommend to people who want to study Kabbalah alone, to read the sources?

Answer: Nothing. If they want they can study, but soon they will come to the conclusion that their studies give them only mental development but do not develop their feelings. Correct development can only be according to the recommendation of Kabbalists, that is, only in a group.

It is written about this both in the Torah and in all the sources. We should take an example from the way the main group of Abraham was created in ancient Babylon and then 2,000 years ago the group of Rabbi Shimon in Galilee, in Israel. Anywhere in the world, if a student succeeds, it is only because he is in the correct environment.

You should think as much as possible about the way to advance each other and understand that you can only act as a pushing part and your soul is all the other friends. You are Malchut and your friends are the first nine Sefirot.

It is impossible to advance alone because you have to get out of your egoistic nature, and this can only be done through correct practical work.
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From KabTV’s  “Videoconference”

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Question: I can study the upper force of nature either in order to improve my life in this world or to go beyond this world. If I study it to improve my material life, is that also called psychology?

Answer: Yes, in general it is a practical science if only we could perceive it correctly. The fact is that there is a big problem in psychology. We cannot be objective about what we feel since we are only within the framework of the sensation of our world.

Our perception is very limited and one-sided. It cannot not give us full awareness and does not allow us to use science. We cannot correctly measure our feelings, compare them with each other, accurately graduate what one, another, or a third one feels. We do not have the main method of cognition, the scientific one.

Therefore psychology is not a science in a clear, real, rigid sense of the word. We don’t have enough measurements. We describe everything very beautifully, in intricate phrases, and no one can convey to another clear dimensions, directions, and statements. In general psychology is the science of our feelings, which we cannot gradate accurately.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/15/21

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Question: “Absence” or “nothing” is a category that captures the absence of something. In physics it is called a vacuum. But although a vacuum is the absence of some objects, fields exist in it. And what does the wisdom of Kabbalah mean by the terms “absence” and “existence out of absence”?

Answer: Absence and existence from absence are different things.

Absence is the negation of anything in any place, volume, or space. Therefore if we say “absence,” “none,” or “nothing,” we are simply saying that no forces exist in the place, format, or category in question.

And existence from absence is something that exists. Therefore it is called “being” or “essence.”

Thus there is absence and there is something that has appeared from absence. But how can it appear? To what extent does it exist? What properties does this something have, and who can feel and affirm it at all? Regarding whom and what does it exist?

These are very deep, serious, one might say philosophical questions, but in Kabbalah they are dealt with simply, clearly, and each has its own place.

First we must immediately discuss one of the most serious attitudes: everything we are talking about happens with respect to a person who attains nature and finds in it absence, existence, being, nothing, and so on. It means that any person who makes certain efforts can attain these categories of nature.

Question: So they don’t exist by themselves, outside of a person?

Answer: We cannot talk about what is outside of man at all, even about the Creator, because the upper force of nature is still felt in us. Therefore the Creator in Hebrew is called “Boreh,” “Bo-reh“—”come” and “see.” That is when you come and see, attain it, and define it. This will be called “Boreh” in relation to you.

Question: Is there any term that means a force that cannot be attained and seen?

Answer: If it is impossible to attain and see, then how can you define it? What we don’t feel, we can’t call by any name, and therefore we don’t talk about it.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/19/21

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Question: In what way does the reality of the world of Assiya differ from the reality of the world of Beria? Does time flow differently there? Is the density of matter different there? Or is there a different quantity of dimensions?

Answer: No! Forget about all the definitions that you have since none of them exist in the spiritual world, not density of matter, not time, not distance, and not motion from one place to another.

The only difference between the worlds is that in each of the worlds or in each level of the worlds there is a certain force of bestowal. This is the only way the worlds and the levels differ from each other.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/6/19

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