What Do Computers Tell Us About God? by 6ixStringJack

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What Do Computers Tell Us About God?

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UPDATED: Friday, February 15, 2008 05:29
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:18 PM

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Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:39 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Depends who's done the uploading.

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Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:56 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

LOL

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Friday, February 15, 2008 5:29 AM

SERGEANTX

Much of my conception of gods has come about through studies related to computer science.

My understanding of how gods work was spawned by the early work of Douglas Hofstadter and, later, Daniel Dennett. As a mathematician and computer scientist, Hofstadter sought to answer the question "How can a closed, deterministic system - like our number system, or a computer program, or the human brain - produce something as complex and unpredictable as a human mind?"

In his first major work on the subject "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", he makes several interesting observations pertaining to the limitations and vast possibilities that exist within such a system. From my point of view he makes a compelling argument for the plausibility of a self-aware system existing entirely within such materialist bounds.

To cut to the chase, and avoid a far-too-lengthy post, I believe that, just as it's possible for the brain to house a subsystem that is self-aware and has a 'will', it's possible for the brain to host a subsystem representing a god, that has it's own volition, though certainly a less powerful one than the mind that dominates the brain. This is the 'god is a meme' argument, but it's also somewhat more than that because I'm proposing that these memes are entities that can enact their own will - by influencing the minds of the brains they inhabit.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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