Been Googling and came across a book titled: The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
Looks interesting... must check it out.
Bath, I would say that a truly sophisticated AI (eg the kid in the film A.I. or Data from Star Trek as opposed to HAL from 2001 or the robots in Star Wars) would HAVE to believe in a creator. Why? Because the AI has a creator. It is intelligent and designed for a purpose... as are Humans. Therefore, Humans must have a Creator. We parallel what we know.
Intuition vs logic is such a fascinating argument. Whilst I can't prove the existence of a creator I can intuit one. Sometimes I feel that both systems are not that separate... that the overlap of intuition and logic is greater that we curently believe possible. AI shouldn't technically have the ability to use intuition... or should it?
ETA: Something that has brought this to the forefront of my mind is watching the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still... and the scene in which the alien tries to tell the human character that life isn't really destroyed... the universe just transforms it into something else...
Last edited by Bathsheba; January 4th, 2009 at 02:19 PM.
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