Gary Miller wrote:
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supercomputer might be v. powerful - for argument's sake, controlling
the internet or the the world's power supplies. But it's still quite a
leap from that to a supercomputer being God. And yet it is clearly a
leap that a large number here have no problem making. So I'd merely
like to understand how you guys make this leap/connection -
irrespective of whether it's logical or justified - & understand the
scenarios in your minds.
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To me this usage is analogous to the gamer's term "god mode", or to
people who use god as a synonym for root.
I.e., a god is one who is supremely powerful, and can do things that
ordinary mortals (called players or users) cannot do.
This is distinct from that classical use of god, which I follow C.G.
Jung in interpreting as an activation visible to consciousness of a
genetically programmed subsystem whose manifestation and mode of
operation is sensitive to history and environment. (I don't usually say
Archetypes as my interpretation of that differs significantly from that
of most users of the term.)
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