REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS

What Do Computers Tell Us About God?

POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Friday, February 15, 2008 05:29
SHORT URL:
VIEWED: 608
PAGE 1 of 1

Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=394576

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:39 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.


Depends who's done the uploading.

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:56 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


LOL

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

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

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

YOUR OPTIONS

NEW POSTS TODAY

USERPOST DATE

OTHER TOPICS

DISCUSSIONS
Well... He was no longer useful to the DNC or the Ukraine Money Laundering Scheme... So justice was served
Fri, March 29, 2024 09:13 - 3 posts
Elections; 2024
Fri, March 29, 2024 06:56 - 2076 posts
Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
Fri, March 29, 2024 06:20 - 6156 posts
Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility
Fri, March 29, 2024 06:18 - 57 posts
In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
Fri, March 29, 2024 02:54 - 3414 posts
BUILD BACK BETTER!
Fri, March 29, 2024 02:49 - 11 posts
Long List of Celebrities that are Still Here
Fri, March 29, 2024 00:00 - 1 posts
China
Thu, March 28, 2024 22:10 - 447 posts
Biden
Thu, March 28, 2024 22:03 - 853 posts
Salon: NBC's Ronna blunder: A failed attempt to appeal to MAGA voters — except they hate her too
Thu, March 28, 2024 07:04 - 1 posts
Russian losses in Ukraine
Wed, March 27, 2024 23:21 - 987 posts
human actions, global climate change, global human solutions
Wed, March 27, 2024 15:03 - 824 posts

FFF.NET SOCIAL