I read a few years ago that we put 300,000 rat neurons into a robot and out of pure boredom the robot started doing things on its own accord.. consciousness in some form was born.. can't we lift the morel dilemma about what is defined as 'life' and start really exploring deeply what happens if we put 30,000,000 human neurons into a robot.

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Wont organic neuron's, and bionic CPU's and programmable DNA be the best way to spawn Ai and its artificial general intelligence (AGI)/Consciousness .. and in turn the question/concerns about how will Ai will react to us.. will be that we are nothing more than the antiquated ancestors of the next organic/semiconductor evolutionary step.

Surely that puts to rest the fears of AGI being our demise.

You have the free will to do whatever God wants... that's free enough, right?

What if my uncle molested me as a child and I hate him, but he is also a christian?  If he is in heaven too, then it is not heaven for me since I hate him... If God changes me so I don't hate him any longer, then I am not me, and whatever is in heaven, is not me...

Sounds like a lose-lose proposition... glad I'm going to hell so I don't have to worry about it

Islam has nothing to do with radicalism. Those who say Allahu Akbar and kill innocents have nothing to do with Islam either, because they are not on the tight path that Islam teaches!!! I hate them as a Muslim. In Islam the one who kills one innocent person is like if he has killed the whole humanity, and the one who saves one person is like if he save the whole humanity! I am really sorry for those who get paid for making Islam seem disgusting. Whatever, nothing can change the power of this religion. The more they spend on their cruel plan, the more non-Muslims get to know about Islam which has already resulted in Islam becoming the fastest growing religion! Statistics says that by 2050 Muslim population will equal Christian population and I would love to witness it.

I really wish that the government would have given me that option of either paying my taxes or not voting because I will without a moment of though pick the latter because regardless of who comes to power, they are all the same people.

Then again, thanks to God giving us our whole world, our bodies and our brains, we have the ability to use some of the science He created for us.

The technological singularity, how far are we off from the 2045 date when this will all come together to the next leap in civilisation or that computers will be as smart as humans by 2029 - according to Ray Kurzweil

Whats your guys thoughts..

You have very strong points. I also wonder when a complicat ed thing or design like us humans made it the proof the God exists. I believe that God exists and I also know that he is powerful and only that. All those things that made us believe like He is human like us could not be true because He is God so he is in another high level being and should not be compared to us because we are just lowlifes to him.

Your rebuttals rebut themselves by making all kinds of assumptions that evolution is factual, when such has not been proven.

Evolution is a hoax.

I am not saying that every Muslim is a terrorist. But every terrorist is a Muslim.“, that’s what I heard somebody saying in the media. When people say that these terrorists, especially ISIS and Taliban, are Muslims, I could also point at a donkey and say it is a horse. There is no right to call these people Muslims. If I call ISIS Muslims, it is an insult to all Muslims. If I call them non-Muslims, it is an insult to all non-Muslims. If I call them humans, it is an insult to the whole humanity. If I call them animals, I’d be insulting all animals, because even the animals will only hunt, when they need to. They are not slaughtering innocent creatures. There is not one word which I would want to use to describe ISIS and Taliban, because no word is suitable for a description without being insulted.  

Islam is not about killing innocent people in the name of religion. ISIS and Taliban are talking about the Jihad. "The fight for the religion." But what they don't understand is, that Jihad is not the fight for religion in the sense of killing non-Muslim people. Jihad is the fight with yourself. Jihad means "to strive" or "to struggle". To reach up to God, you have to find yourself. You need to find out who you are. Only then, when you found your true self, you found Islam. Islam means peace. Only then you found Peace with yourself.

Exactly why religion is garbage. Everyone claims to have faith in their specific god yet by their definition, only 1 god is real so even if there was 1 real god, all the others have to be false so how do we proceed from here? How do we determine which god is the real one?

Standard good Muslims are not Islamic. They should change their religion by rewriting the Koran, removing all the directives to do violence. If they did that, they might be a little closer to being Muslims. As it is, they don't know what being a Muslim is all about... not according to ancient Islamic writings, that is.

I have never seen a single study about IQ which places whites above asians... never

Asians have been shown to have an average IQ of 10+ points higher than whites in every study

For example, this study shows Korea and Japan with an average IQ of 105+, US with 97, and US Catholics at only 90... no surprise that Catholics have a lower IQ than average Americans

Every study I have seen shows asians about 10 points higher than whites, non-religious about 10 points higher than religious, and whites about 10 points higher than blacks... I wouldn't brag if I were you



Also note, US whites are about 10-15 IQ points lower than whites from the Netherlands, an atheist country... coincidence?

Well the problem is people's ignorance and xenophobia and there's little you can do about that unfortunately. Just know that the root of such Islamophobia (or racism dressed up as a dislike of religion) is misplaced hatred. Deep down they hate themselves and need somebody else to blame for their failings in life so they blame people who are different to them such as foreigners or people with a different viewpoint or religious belief. They're usually too stupid to look in the mirror and realize the only person they should be blaming is themselves, but that's ignorance for you. I hear it's bliss.

Due to the public outcry that greeted Donald Trump's decision to separate the families of illegal immigrants, Donald Trump has reversed the policy.
His decision to reverse the policy was a noble move on his part.  I believe that children should not be deprived of the care and love they deserve. And if the illegal immigrants would be prosecuted,  the families should be detained together.
Finally,  the American government should take steps to ensure children taken away from their parents should be reunited with them once again. And to American parents not able to reunite with their kids,  American citizenship should be given to them (as reparation). Although nothing can replace the loss of a child,  it's only fair the parents should be given a second chance

I would love to know the opinions of people who are interested in this very cutting edge field of blockchains and decentralisation. A lot of people who I often speak with believe that Ted Kaczynski was ahead of his time. And a lot of the ideas in his manifesto are becoming true...

Do you agree with Ted's Manifesto? and could there of been a better way today for him to have got the attention he needed for this important debate?

For anybody who's interested in his manifesto its available here.
http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf

The problem is simple. Most Muslims are barely Muslim. Why? Because they don't obey the Koran - http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm. If they obeyed the Koran, they would be on eternal Jihad, just like ISIS.

So, the problem is this. When a Muslim is close to you, you don't know if he is a peaceful, almost non-Muslim Muslim, or if he is a lying, Jihad Muslim, just waiting for the right time to pounce.

And here is the problem with peaceful, almost non-Muslim Muslims. If a strong, jihad Muslim is in their presence, and he says, "Start fighting, right now, because the Koran says so, and if you don't, I will execute you, according to Koran dictates," what does the peaceful, almost non-Muslim Muslim do? He fights or dies, right?

What does this mean? It means that any peaceful, almost non-Muslim Muslim can be converted into a jihad Muslim, almost on a moment's notice. It's only the peaceful, almost non-Muslim Muslims who don't understand this. The rest of the people understand. So they are scared of Muslims, and protest them right out of the rest of society.

Hello;

Please I want to discuss a very important topic, it's about the relation between Islam and extremism.

I Don't know why people are still believing that all muslims are terrorists, or extremists, I know that the majority of Muslim countries suffers from lack of democracy, but people and youth in these countries know crypto, use Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, Instagram… etc. listen to music, have boy or girlfriend, etc.

I personally suffer from those haters especially when I travel.

So, Where is the problem? I Don't know?

Cooperative myths do indeed establish trust between strangers but such a process is self limited if the myths are false.

Cooperation forms a foundation that society builds itself upon. It allows for the unfolding of potential into higher orders of development. If the shared beliefs are false, that foundation will eventually fail and the society with it.

With increasing cooperation the power and understanding of a society grows progressively with time. Such understanding will explore and and expose any demonstrable untruths in the shared belief structure.

When this happens the common basis for cooperation fails and the society fragments and starts the process of collapse.

What is universe changing, however, is an inclusive paradigm that allows for genuine total and voluntary cooperation that cannot ever be falsified with progress. This is what is achieved by grounding ones foundation for cooperation in God.

God cannot be falsified, is entirely consistent with our knowledge of truth, and maximizes cooperation over time.

You are certainly free to reject God and attempt to ground your reality in some other faith. That is exactly what you have done with your embrace of nihilistic principles.

You can live your life as though your existence is simply chance.
You can deny any ultimate purpose to your existence.
You can even decide that you have no inherent value or worth.

In the long run, however, these are not viable beliefs. They have no future because they don't form the necessary foundation needed to sustain cooperation and hence life over time.

If the trust has been established, it remains even though the myths are shown for what they are... myths. How much stronger is the trust among believers, when the Bible is proven to be truth and fact.

You answered this question yourself you just don't realise it.


What does God have to do with cooperation. This is a challenging topic so I will start with the comments of miscreanity who commented on it earlier.


This relationship between God and cooperation is as fundamental as it is necessary. God breaks us free from ultimately self-destructive conflict and enables ever higher orders of cooperative synergy. The more we bring ourselves into alignment with God the greater the levels of cooperation that become possible.

I discussed this point in some detail here:
See: Superrationality and the Infinite