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David Lucifer
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Re:The Supposed Difference Between Relationship and Religion...
« Reply #2 on: 2006-02-03 13:47:18 » |
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Quote from: Aurorum on 2006-02-02 09:07:39
I hope that that is the case. However, it is almost too good to be true; [in my opinion,] humanity is ancient, not young as many presume.
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I too would like to think that humanity will outgrow traditional religion some day (and that the CoV is a stepping stone in that direction). But if religion is hardwired we may have to change our genetics first.
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Re:The Supposed Difference Between Relationship and Religion...
« Reply #3 on: 2006-02-12 22:02:54 » |
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I once heard on a TV documentary that if we built conscious machines they too would believe in something like religion. The documentary made the point that humans do not have all of the information needed to make a correct decision, so they operate much like a heuristic. It continues that machines would also operate using this algorithm.
A heuristic is a term from computer science that describes an algorithm that finds an approximation to a problem, which is quite accurate most of the time. Heuristics are used for a class of problems for which an algorithm exists to find the correct answer, however this will require an unobtainable amount of time to solve any reasonable instance of the problem. When the absolute solution has been proven unobtainable, approximations are necessary.
Bringing this back to humans, most do not have enough education to make their decision based on a world without God, too many things don't make sense. So given their limited sense of the world they approximate a solution that requires God. Machines using Artificial Intelligence methods, many of which are heuristics, may operate in the same way. Anyone with a background in computer science will appreciate the statement 'God is a Local Minima', that is, an approximate solution to a problem, but not the best solution.
So until the human race is properly educated, religion will flourish. Education is the antiviral to any religious virus. This again strengthens another argument that the 'Lucifer' references and Church of *Virus* title may not be the best title for this memeplex. This movement is not about creating a virus; it is about building antivirals against the many religions of the world, maybe the Church of Immunity? I guess this memeplex has to act like a virus to spread though, as their aren't enough operatives of this church to immunise everyone. It has to be like the computer viruses that infect a system so that they can patch the hole they used to gain entry, or the gene therapy viruses that infect an organism to modify it's DNA so that it may fight cancer or other viruses. Either way, Church of Immunity sounds less offensive to the masses. Even a virus that 'patches' people mustn't be recognised as a virus, or it will never gain entry in the first place.
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