[[the computer was saying to be human is to be moral!]]
If so then that was an ignorant answer- We know, that left to themselves, man often times chooses immorality not morality- That man ignores the objective universal moral code written on their hearts, and chooses to disobey their God-given knowledge of good and evil and to choose evil-
I don’t disagree per se....
Yet the perfect human being(as Christ commanded us to be) is a perfect moral being!
The computer is operating per the logic of zero’s and ones....like a child in his concrete operations stage....everything is simply black and white or is “just so” because their mommy and daddy and sunday school teacher said so. No clutter of competing biases or arguments over the contexts of the various “is” definitions. Christ said that children are those who are the “ of such is the kingdom of Heaven!” Now the computer has no animus or divine spark so I’m not suggesting anything along that line with the computer. But the thinking reminds me of things that fairly bright but inexperienced children may come up with...simple bold statements...not tinged by the white lies of tact and the colorations of “social context”! Sometimes these child like statements can strike one blind with their profundity...uttered without guile,uttered in innocence.(or as Linkletter would say..”children say the darndest things”).
The exchange” Man to computer...”Be Moral!”
Computer to Man...”Be a man!”
The computer made a mathematical calculation and fashioned its response and it really was a profound one!
(though the Holy Spirit may have intervened here, but also the computer was probably responding with cold truthful logic) To be human is to choose or not to choose a higher moral course. Animals act on instinct and computers by what is programmed....but only man can choose to act like an animal until God gives him over to reprobation or man can cry out to God to be set on a higher moral/spiritual course!
(it probably was the Holy Spirit...the reply was a Jesus type stunner! Like Job being told to “stand up and gird up his loins” or put pants on) for God wanted to have a “onversation” with him!)