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What is ‘Programming’? Precisely speaking what is 'Programmed Humans" and we the humans are pre-programmed?
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A program is set of planned instructions, commands, procedures that collectively determine the specific behavior of an object.
I guess, we are programmed but that programming is very different then the programming human beings do. How we are programmed is beyond our imagination but we can get the difference of behavior and response to same situation by the two, one is an object programmed by God and other is an object programmed by human beings. The programming humans are programed with is absolutely dynamic and adaptive, where as the programming human beings do to program objects is neither dynamic in true sense nor is adaptive at all.
Would add more details with some examples.
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Walaikum as’salaam,
Nice topic. If I had to define it myself, then “programming” would be the act of building code/logic/routine into something. By birth, we’re not programmed as we’re given free will, but as we grow and adapt to our human society, we become more and more like one another. I believe we do this naturally and subconsciously so that we don’t feel alone. By being more similar to those around us, it gives us a sense of familiarity and community. Society has always favored those of us who have conformed to the standards set by the “norm”.
Unfortunately, modern society here in the West has set such high standards on the norm that we live to work. We have to do excellent in school so that we can get accepted into an expensive university in order for us to get great jobs so that we can spend most of our lives paying off that debt. We’re enslaved financially to the system through various different angles, education being only one of many. We wear suits and ties and polished shoes to work, work the hours of 9-5 Monday-Friday, and when we get just a couple hours a week to spend time with our families, it’s considered the “American Dream”. So are we programmed by society? Surely.
Fortunately, we have the Glorious Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, sallalahu alaihi wa’sallam. Having said this, it’s a shame that many Muslims in the modern world try so hard to convert Islam into something more modernized to adhere its teachings to their misconceptions of what’s right and what’s wrong. It’s no wonder why practicing Islam is difficult in today’s world, and why Islam above all other faiths is so traditional. In essence, being a practicing Muslim is the only way to retain our identities and remain free from being programmed by modern society.
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Hopefully our programming is written in Ruby
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Well, if you take human capabilities of program the things then definitely we are not programmed that way.
We have free will, we can choose but there few other situation when we cannot choose, that is compatible determimism or compatible free will.
See following hadith.
Allah's messenger (saw) the true and truly inspired said, (as regards your creation, 22.5) “everyone of you is collected in the womb of his mother for the first 40 days in the form of a seed, and then he becomes a clot for another 40 days, and then a lump of
flesh for another 40 days. Then Allah sends an angel to write four things. He writes his deeds, time of death, means of his livelihood, and whether he will be happy or unhappy in the (Hereafter). Then the soul is breathed into his body. So a man may do deeds characteristic of the people of hell until there is but an arms length between him and hell, and that which has been written by the angel overtakes him and so he begins to behave like the people of paradise and thus he enters it. Similarly, a
person may do deeds characteristic of people of paradise until there is but an arm's length between him and paradise, and that which has been written overtakes him and so he behaves like the people of hell and thus he enters it.” ( Sahih Al-bukhari and Sahih Muslim ).
This hadith describe the Islamic principles of life, death, deeds & rewards, predestination, and free will.
First thing written by angel is deeds, that script is adaptive since it is written in that script that we have free will and power to choose between good and evil, for example. If the script is not dynamic and adaptive then no way we can choose things.
Allah knows best.
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Hopefully our programming is written in Ruby
how illogical, human's programming is written in human made programming language?
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then where the ‘freedom of choice’ stands?
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under an umbrella.
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Two boxes are placed on a table and you are asked to choose any one, nothing would force you to choose a specific box, you would choose on your own, that is free will.
strong(true) adaptive programming is a theory and will always remain a theory. adaptive programming is one of most complex and advanced area of research in computer science. Through adaptive programming, scientists are trying to develop a program that would have adaptive software objects. These software objects would modify themselves to better serve
in different states with provided different conditions and different situations encountered, where as that program would not be written to handle any specific condition and situation.
Here, I would like to ask non-believers a question, why scientists are trying to develop such program?
Pre-programmed, programmed, weak adaptive program, strong adaptive program, all these are different concepts. If you want to look at matter of free will, dont just look it through simple programming human beings do. We being humans know very little about ourself, so true adaptive programming is just a term i used, what actually that is Allah knows best.
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Well, if you take human capabilities of program the things then definitely we are not programmed that way. We have free will, we can choose but there few other situation when we cannot choose, that is compatible determimism or compatible free will.
See following hadith. Allah's messenger (saw) the true and truly inspired said, (as regards your creation, 22.5) “everyone of you is collected in the womb of his mother for the first 40 days in the form of a seed, and then he becomes a clot for another 40 days, and then a lump of flesh for another 40 days. Then Allah sends an angel to write four things. He writes his deeds, time of death, means of his livelihood, and whether he will be happy or unhappy in the (Hereafter). Then the soul is breathed into his body. So a man may do deeds characteristic of the people of hell until there is but an arms length between him and hell, and that which has been written by the angel overtakes him and so he begins to behave like the people of paradise and thus he enters it. Similarly, a person may do deeds characteristic of people of paradise until there is but an arm's length between him and paradise, and that which has been written overtakes him and so he behaves like the people of hell and thus he enters it.” ( Sahih Al-bukhari and Sahih Muslim ).
This hadith describe the Islamic principles of life, death, deeds & rewards, predestination, and free will. First thing written by angel is deeds, that script is adaptive since it is written in that script that we have free will and power to choose between good and evil, for example. If the script is not dynamic and adaptive then no way we can choose things.
Allah knows best.
Bro, I think you've taken the concept of programming a bit too literally. When I mention people being programmed to essentially be slaves, I don't mean someone has literally sat there and tried to individually brain wash each and every person one on one. From a more societal perspective, being programmed to believe what is and isn't right in the modern world is what's led so many of us away from our deen and instead so focused on believing that the only keys to the success in our lives is by us relying solely on the financial/corporate/education/healthcare system in today's world. Yes, we have free will, but we as humans have been programmed to think that following our deen in today's world is primitive or un-educational.