On 4/4/2016 9:52 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Samiya Illias <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
*Actually I think Watson was water cooled.**
**
**Brent*
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
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