2006-11-30 15:23:17 · 14 answers · asked by Link 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I suppose you could build a machine that was capable of self-awareness and learning and love. I suppose you could even make a machine that believed in God wholeheartedly after you did all the other things...
Also, the guy who said "check out that sodium/potassium pump" is on to something. The human brain is a machine: electrical and chemical and computational and possibly the single most complex thing on the planet, but it is still basically a machine. That thinks. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you built a giant computer and ran a computer simulation of the brain of an actual person.
As for having a soul, how do you define soul? Is it the qualities I listed above? Or are you going for a spiritual essence that survives death? I don't believe in spirits and don't know how they would work if they were real, so I can't possibly design something that incorporates them.
2006-11-30 15:47:03 · answer #1 · answered by Wise1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A soul belongs to an organism that has natural life. The more developed the entity, the more developed soul. If you can prove that your machine has life it just might have a soul. But I don't know of any machines that mature, reproduce, and die like a living organism.
2006-11-30 23:29:51 · answer #2 · answered by OldGringo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A shoe making machine or a fish packaging machine.
2006-11-30 23:27:04 · answer #3 · answered by songndance1999 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the human body but the most complex machine ever created? Just check out that sodium-potassium pump.
2006-11-30 23:24:52 · answer #4 · answered by Atlas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe oneday then it has reached the stage of being aware.
2006-11-30 23:28:50 · answer #5 · answered by Mr Hex Vision 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...try thinking deeper next time, then maybe your questions can turn up wiser.
2006-11-30 23:34:07 · answer #6 · answered by * Akosua* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can Santa enter houses with no chimney?
2006-11-30 23:30:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If it makes shoes yes!
2006-11-30 23:25:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so.
But my blender is possessed by a demon.
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2006-11-30 23:25:57 · answer #9 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no and neither can humans
2006-11-30 23:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋