[B-Chan]

Those of you who have no idea what I'm yammering on about can check out this Wikipedia article to find out more.

(AI = "Artificial Intelligence")

[Spktyr]

I’m guessing the AI-worshippers haven’t taken into account the possibility of Rampancy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampancy

[Dark Knight]

It’s a pretty simple test. Do you want to live or die?

Nature tells us to struggle to survive. Liberals tell us to die when they choose.

I’ll go with nature on this one.

DK

[tet68]

I want my flying car .

[FateAmenableToChange]

Oddly, this is why I never argue God with non-Christians, agnostics, and athiests, although I will freely talk about the things Jesus has done in my life. You can't argue someone into heaven or believing in God because, ultimately, God cannot be discerned entirely by human reason. The god that is comprehensible to the human mind is probably not a god. Human beings arguing about what heaven is like and the nature of God limit Him to the capacity of their own reason and intellect. (That human reason and intellect is limited is proved beyond a shadow of a doubt by the fact that 52% of this country thinks it would be a good idea to elect a democrat.) It's like ants arguing about the nature of human beings.

Any heaven we can imagine will become hell in eternity--consider 72 virgins (or raisins) for eternity. Unless the law of diminishing marginal returns has been repealed in heaven, it will certainly pale after repeated experience.

Jesus even suggested this in his response to the pharisee's question on the widow who was remarried to seven brothers (e.g., Mark 12:18-27):

18Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19"Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother. 20Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. 22In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. 23At the resurrection[c] whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"

24Jesus replied, "Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 26Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'[d]? 27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"

Jesus describes heaven in non-rational terms, I suspect, because his listeners couldn't grasp the concepts or the language lacked the descriptive capacity beyond "it's heaven."

This doesn't mean that it's all hippie-based "expand your mind, I'm ok, you're ok" irrationality. God gave us reason, imagination, and free will, arguably as tools to search for understanding about God. But just like I used to mock and ridicule Christians and Christ because it seemed wholly irrational from a liberal/leftist college kid standpoint, Christianity only made sense after I got saved. Heaven will only make sense when we get there.

[PreciousLiberty]

This article, while making some valid points, blissfully ignores an entire vast Universe that’s there to explore.

That might take some time. ;-)

[Mr. Jeeves]

Science Fiction has a lousy record of predicting the future.

I don't know - watch "Blade Runner" again. ;)

[SunkenCiv]

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[RightWhale]

AI is impossible in its total definition, however the bar is being lowered day by day so they already have AI, it’s as good as done. Hook up a couple rat brain neurons and Lo!

[KevinDavis]

[LibWhacker]

Dude... cheer up! There’s no end of mathematical theorems that can be proven. And if there really are an infinite number of “universes,” we’ll never run out of interesting things to do! Besides which, time... eeets relative. :-)

[Cvengr]

Science Fiction has a lousy record of predicting the future. In the 1930s, for example, it was widely held that by 1970, toga-clad descendants of the Depression Generation would be living in giant art deco cities full of speeding Dymaxion Cars and dining on food pills.

Perhaps, but in Metropolis, The central executive looks eerily familiar and I'm still amazed by the insight of a PC monitor being a translucent plexiglass, thin screen to which Raymond Massey would perform communication and research in H G Wells 'Things to Come'.

BTW, for Fritz Lang afficianados, some newly found METROPOLIS film footage was discovered in Argentina with some previously unknown characters, which is scheduled for release on Blu-Ray in 2009. from http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/metropolis-new-footage-in-next-years-blu-ray-release.php