Re:How to Build a Computer Model of God
by icebraining on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @09:42AM
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Personally, not only do I not fall on this problem in any way, as I question the actual validity of it;
Firstly, there can't be a single "Question of God", since there's no single coherent definition of "God."
Secondly, if we define God as an entity which is ultimately undetectable and unfalsifiable, does the question of its existence really mean anything? It may be an interesting thought problem, but trying to answer it leads nowhere.
Re:How to Build a Computer Model of God
by kristaps on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @09:36AM
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What does it matter if the answer cannot be known? If the question cannot be answered than "spending a significant amount of time deciding" is just waste.
What if the answer can be known? Several people in the world and throughout history claim to _know_ the answer through physical experiences. They are easy to dismiss as crazy, but what IF they've discovered HOW to search? Some things just can't be measured by physical apparatus (like love for example).
Re:How to Build a Computer Model of God
by icebraining on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @09:52AM
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Lots of "migth be" and "seems to be" in that article. I don't think we understand it or can replicate it in the laboratory.
Re:How to Build a Computer Model of God
by icebraining on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:09AM
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Are you claiming that lack of current understanding proves a fundamental impossibility of doing so?
Certainly not! Lack of understanding of the complete universe is why we don't know if God exists or not. We don't _now_ know how to define and measure love in the lab, so there are likewise probably other things that also cannot be measured and detected physically (at least at the present time).
Re:How to Build a Computer Model of God
by jamesrcole on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @06:27AM
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Why do you think it's an important question? (I'm not being rhetorical)
And really, what philosophical question posed to us could be more important than the question of God? It seems that every human should spend some significant amount of time deciding where they fall on this problem before they do...well...anything else.