(February 3, 2016 at 6:17 am)Rhythm Wrote: There's a whole group of loonies that worry about something like google becoming "the mind of god" and summarily exterminating humanity or some-such, lol.
Whenever I hit a, I get atheist forums, deviant.
I think if you crunch the numbers, the guy who gets "atheist forums" coming up first is statistically more deviant than the guy who gets "Asian ass porn."
Leaving that aside, I'd like to see an argument why we SHOULDN'T think of humanity as a whole as an entity perhaps with a mind of its own. Certainly it processes world information and executes actions. Certainly it contains all of the contents of any individual's world view millions of times over. So if mind is just a collection of self-referencing logic gates, does this not mean that Google is the closest thing to God we have got so far?
To me, the answer is no-- but that's because I think machinery, no matter how complex, cannot amound to mind. But I'm curious abount your stance.