RE: What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God?
December 11, 2015 at 5:48 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2015 at 5:54 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(December 11, 2015 at 5:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: As long as there's space between our ears there will be space for gods Peng.
Again, not likely.
For one, we might very well achieve immortality during our lifetimes. (I'm not saying this will definitely happen, but there's a chance that it will.)The whole notion of God therefore will become completely irrelevant.
For another, we might achieve the means to substantially increase our intelligence, by studying the human brain and figuring out what makes it tick. It might happen through pharmaceutical means, nanotechnology, A.I., etc. It's hard to imagine with an I.Q. of 2743 one would believe ridiculous things on insufficient evidence.
Or we might create incredibly authentic virtual realities which we would inhabit for so long that it would become an essential part of what it means to be human. In these realities, it's not hard to imagine how much power and freedom one would have to control their own worlds. They would become Gods, essentially. That wouldn't really fit with believing in one at the same time.
Or, and this is the most terrifying prospect in all possible future scenarios, we might actually create God, and not just in our heads. It's unlikely that ASI would be content with sharing the world with us, or let us control it for that matter. This would be a real God, maybe not in the classical sense, but a god nonetheless.
