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Is God an Alien Mathematician?
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| Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis
Posted on 01/22/2011 9:25:57 AM PST by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
BEN GOERTZEL: Hugo, you've recently published an article on KurzweilAI.net titled "From Cosmism to Deism, which essentially posits a transhumanist argument that some sort of God exists, i.e. some sort of intelligent creator of our universe and furthermore that this creator is probably some sort of mathematician. I'm curious to ask you some questions digging a little deeper into your thinking on these (fun, albeit rather far-out) issues.
Could you start out by clarifying what you mean by the two terms in the title of your article, cosmism and deism? (I know what I mean by Cosmism, and I described it in my Cosmist Manifesto book, but I wonder if you have a slightly different meaning.)
HUGO DE GARIS: I defined these two terms rather succinctly in the kurzweilai.net essay, so Ill just quote those definitions here. Deism is the belief that there is a deity i.e. a creator of the universe, a grand designer, a cosmic architect, that conceived and built our universe. Cosmism is the ideology in favor of humanity building artilects this century (despite the risk that advanced artilects may decide to wipe out humanity as a pest). Artilects are artificial intellects, i.e. godlike massively intelligent machines, with intellectual capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level. Deism is to be distinguished from theism, which is the belief in a deity that also cares about the welfare of individual humans.
(Excerpt) Read more at hplusmagazine.com ...
TOPICS: Religion & Science; Skeptics/Seekers; Theology
KEYWORDS: cosmism; deism; god; math
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
Math. It figures, cause the college of social sciences here is pretty lame.
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posted on
01/22/2011 9:29:51 AM PST
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
To: Miss_Meyet
*Alien pick up line alert*
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posted on
01/22/2011 9:30:07 AM PST
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: Lakeshark; Darksheare
*Alien pick up line alert*You shoulda pinged Darks to that...
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posted on
01/22/2011 9:34:38 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 732 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Lakeshark
*Alien pick up line alert*How about shouting, "Nice asteroids!" over the really loud music?
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posted on
01/22/2011 9:40:48 AM PST
by
Miss_Meyet
(A zebra does not change its spots~Al "Nature Watch" Gore)
To: null and void; Darksheare; Borax Queen
Or maybe the resident alien, aka the AZ rattler (hatching as shown below):
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posted on
01/22/2011 9:42:42 AM PST
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
Another lame attempt to understand God on human terms.
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posted on
01/22/2011 9:47:24 AM PST
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle Scout since Sep 9, 1970)
To: P8riot
Another lame attempt to understand God on human terms. If only we could have a sign, cosign, tangent, cotangent, cosecant anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0cvqT1tAE
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posted on
01/22/2011 10:05:55 AM PST
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
To: Lakeshark; null and void; Darksheare
HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
Seriously, how could any mathematician not believe in "higher powers"?
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posted on
01/22/2011 11:19:51 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
Is God an Alien Mathematician?
Did anybody think he was a human one?
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posted on
01/22/2011 11:35:34 AM PST
by
Ellendra
(Profanity is the mark of a conversational cripple.)
To: null and void; Lakeshark; Borax Queen
Alien pickup lines?
*Beamed up by mistake, be back later*
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posted on
01/22/2011 2:05:34 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
To: Lakeshark
*Alien pick up line alert*"You sure are one prime factor..."
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posted on
01/22/2011 2:13:32 PM PST
by
paulycy
(Liberals suck all the joy out of America. Make them stop.)
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
Artilects are artificial intellects, i.e. godlike massively intelligent machines, with intellectual capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level. and we are all brains in vats
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posted on
01/22/2011 2:14:13 PM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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