Seeking Rules

I think there is a common personality trait which seeks rules for making all decisions in life. Seeking rules is not new, take the Ten Commandments for example. Erich Fromm discusses various efforts to escape freedom in Escape from Freedom (1941). I will not repeat any of that here. There is also a long history of the idea of Determinism. The combination of the idea of modeling human behavior by computers following strict rules or Artifical Intelligence, and the idea that Turing machines are an adequate model of computation [see Turing Thesis Myth] results in the idea that a AI could be superior to human intelligence. See [AI Mystery] and [My Third Crisis]. The experience of making computers do amazing things results in a loss of self – a desire for rules for all decisions in life – similar to rules occurring often in religion and political power – except that the experiencing of these rules in computer programming is much more intense.