> On 12 Feb 2015, at 7:54 pm, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 11 Feb 2015, at 05:37, Samiya Illias wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 11-Feb-2015, at 6:40 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015  Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> > I can“t even enumerate the number of ways in which that article is wrong.
>>> 
>>> I stopped reading after the following parochial imbecility "I don't see 
>>> Christ's redemption limited to human beings".  
>>> 
>>>> > First of all, any intelligent robot MUST have a religion in order to act 
>>>> > in any way.
>>> 
>>> Yet another example of somebody in love with the English word "religion" 
>>> but not with the meaning behind it. 
>>>  
>>>> > But I think that a robot with such level of intelligence will never be 
>>>> > possible
>>> 
>>> So you think that random mutation and natural selection can produce a 
>>> intelligent being but a intelligent designer can't. Why? 
>> 
>> I am so happy to read this comment of yours. I hope someday you'll come to 
>> reason that even we have been produced by an intelligent designer. 
> 
> Would you conclude from this that we are machine? I am thinking to some 
> creationists who argue that animals are sort of machines, and this to give 
> evidence for "intelligent design"
> 
> My first problem with "intelligent design" is that, as an explanation, it 
> assumes more than it explain. Where would an intelligent designer comes from?
> 
> Then, if you look at the Mandelbrot set, you can see many complex structures, 
> and this illustrates that very complex structures can arise from very simple 
> principle. Of course we know that this is already the case in arithmetic 
> where all possible machine already exist together with all their possible 
> execution (which is why I suggest to explain this to you (hope my last post 
> was not to much wishes-breaking!).
> 
> So God does not need to create machines, it is enough to create 0 and the 
> successors and told them to add and multiply. This leads to all machines + 
> all computations, making the creationist argument non valid.

That's an interesting and novel argument. However, to counter it I suspect the 
theist would say they don't believe in comp.

> A remaining possible role for a God would be in a selection process. But a 
> selection is done automatically (by the FPI or consciousness) ... in case the 
> relative measure on computations, provided by computer science, fits well 
> with the measure inferred from nature (given today by QM, this makes 
> computationalism testable). Here Quantum Mechanics illustrates indeed that 
> apparently, those measure fits well, as far as we can say today.
> 
> Bruno
> 
>> 
>> Samiya 
>> 
>>> 
>>>   John K Clark 
>>> 
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