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Is consciousness an emergent property born out of the coordination of trillion of synapses? With their capcities growing exponentially, after a threshold is crossed, is there a chance for computers to become conscious of themselves? And one day , if we succeed in transfering the neural electrical activities into microchips, can we free our consciousness from our perishable bodies and embrace eternity? I'm not looking for a yes - or no - answer, but is the line of thought just a freak mind's musings?

2006-08-23 20:12:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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There are no gods.

Yes, I suspect if a machine was sufficiently complex enough and we truely understood the nature of the human mind we could have a thinking, self-knowing artificial intelligence.

2006-08-23 20:18:11 · answer #1 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 0 1

I see this line of thought as an attempt to circumvent the plan God laid out for us and therefore, judgment and still live forever.

Consciousness is Divine because the sum is greater than the whole. What I mean is, the ability of our synapses to compute logically is not enough to explain events like projected thought (documented cases of extra sensory perception) Recorded in the Bible are events that similarly utilize capabilities that are not explainable by logic.

There is one computer that NASA (I think?) has been working with for years to attempt to teach self awareness. Last I'd heard it was up to about the level of a three year old child and this was years ago. I have no doubt that they will eventually achieve this, but I don't see the benefit of it. Just an accomplishment notch on some body's belt. Even if they manage to transfer all the memories of an individual to a computer, it will not be a consciousness that was transferred.

2006-08-24 03:30:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

To early man (and even to modern man) the consciousness is what defines who we are, yet itself defies any definition. The consciousness is the basis for the concept of devinity.

The consciousness is poorly understood. It seems to have few material aspects, yet it may be dependant on material aspects such as memory. Whether or not it can be synthesized at all, much less transfered from man to machine, is far too complicated for me to even speculate.

It seems more likely that science will put machines in the man before it puts the man in machines.

2006-08-24 03:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by nick g 1 · 1 0

Thats a good question. Really, it raises alot of philosophical implications. But remember, there are other animals that are slowing gaining intelligence, some people might consider that to make us lose our uniquness, other animals are self-aware. And if we all converted to machines, we would have no people, we would become artificially born. And dont say we wont all do it, because one way or another, its an eventuality, when we are designing our kids.

2006-08-24 03:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

actually, consciousness is stamped into our soul by the Creator. It is not in the body or mind. That is why it is part of the divine.

2006-08-24 03:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by Mustafa 5 · 0 1

because god gave it to us

2006-08-24 03:14:09 · answer #6 · answered by papaofgirlmegan 5 · 0 1

yes... may be

2006-08-24 03:22:11 · answer #7 · answered by Voltage Transformer 33kV 5 · 0 0

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