On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Based upon my reading of the Quran > The fact that a billion people in the 21th century believe that the superstitions a ignorant bronze age tribe had 1500 years ago can help them understand how the universe works is utterly bizarre but understandable; they believe it's true because their mommy and daddy told them it was true. If the start of Islamic (or Christian) education was postponed until a person was 17 religion would be dead in a generation, but if physics education was postponed until 17 (and in fact it usually is) it would not be dead; the difference is that one is based on mindless indoctrination and one is based on logic and observation. > > I would consider LIFE or ALIVE to be that which contains a NAFS. > The word "nafs" is a Arabic word that is derived from Hebrew and just means "soul", and nobody knows what if anything that means. Does a palm tree have a "nafs"? Does Watson? > > > However, all LIFE contains water as an essential component: > So according to the profundity in the Quran the reason we have a "nafs" and Watson (or any AI) does not is that we are juicy and Watson is not. Well what else would you expect from a a ignorant bronze age tribe 1500 years ago ? John K Clark -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
