After creating a self-propagating, self-maintaining machine in motion does the mechanic become obsolete?

Question

Or should the machine worship the mechanic out of gratitude?

Edit: I wasn't talking about individuals.

Answer 1

Interesting point. Machines can't worship, neither can machines think. Therefore we should realize that we are not machines and start thinking for ourselves. When we do that we just might realize that the supposed mechanic was given the credit for work that was not his.

Answer 2

LOVE THE QUESTION DUDE..!!!


The machine worships only the tools that are used upon it and that which is fed into it to keep itself in a state of constant motion.

It tries to remember the Creator and the Mechanic, but after a time it will eventually forget who or what that was.

At some point, following this logic, the machine will declare another as the Creator or might even become so self-aware that it decides that it is the Creator itself.

Answer 3

Is that referring to a hypothetical creator deity, or the possible fate of humanity after we create the first Von Neumann machines?

There's an old SF tale ("Answer" Frederic Brown, 1954) that concerns a supercomputer, and delivers the punchline "Now, there is a God."

The theological position is that the very fabric of the universe requires God's attention to maintain its existence. The role of universal observer does not, by this reckoning, become redundant.

You know the pair of limericks on a theme by Bishop Berkeley? (Half way down the wiki page below)

So, would we expect our machines to worship us,
or at least respect our wishes and commands ?
Or would we recognise them as our equals and eventually our superiors?

Since we're not placed to make universes, in respect of the God question: if there, then yes, very probably worship would be appropriate. If there.

Answer 4

The machine should realize that it owes its existence to The Mechanic, and that one day it will need to return to The Mechanic. Therefore the machine needs to continue a positive relationship with The Mechanic.

Answer 5

It depends. Can the machine even worship? Does it have intelligence? Will it just maintain, or is there a mechanism to evolve and improve?

Answer 6

Machines can't worship. Even people aren't self-maintaining. The second law of thermal dynamics rules all of this out.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Do you really think you are self-maintaining? The Divine Mechanic is at work in us with every breath we breathe.

Answer 9

Worship is not necessary. You've stumbled into the Deism/Pantheism wing of the building.

Answer 10

All machines have in-built obsolescence. How else would the world go around?