These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful thinking?
2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi <use...@rudnyi.ru> > Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, > Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality > > p. 133 "Ray Kurzweil believes that intelligent machines will be more > spiritual than human being and believes that the future will include real > and virtual houses of worship where intelligent machines will congregate > (Kurzweil 1999, 153). Naturally, since all human mental phenomena are, from > Kurzweil's point of view, computational processes, religious experiences > must be as well. " > > p. 133-134 "Some human being, however, might welcome robots into their > religious communities and some robots might wish to join them. > Fundamentally, if robots become conscious and, thereafter, acquire > 'beliefs', a state that involves intentionality and meaning, then some of > those beliefs will surely be religious. Both theologians and computer > scientists have supported such a view, including Anne Foerst, David Levy, > and Edmund Furse." > > p. 134 "The artificial intelligence researcher David Levy has argued that > robots will join in religious practices as a necessary by-product of their > emotional range and conscious beliefs." > > p. 134 "Without doubt, the interest that computer scientists have in the > religious life of robots is fascinating but the fact that theologians have > engaged robotics is considerably more so." > > -- > http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2013/03/**religious-robots.html<http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2013/03/religious-robots.html> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > everything-list+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > To post to this group, send email to > everything-list@googlegroups.**com<everything-list@googlegroups.com> > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/everything-list?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
