I agree that continuance of progress should be focused on reality as we know it and experience it, wholeheartedly. To give my answer to your question as to why God gave us free will;
Let's suppose you have created a small army of robots. They're great at getting things done, but they need input, something to do. Let's say you wanted to teach these robots to be autonomous, how would you start that. Probably have to program in some sort of algorythm to simulate creativity. You don't really want that to go unrestrained or it could backfire and destroy your house. You'd need to progam in some sort of morality (rule set) to limit creativity. That way the AI could experience free creativity, and develop, through experience, what's right and wrong.
That's what free will means to me, an opportunity to quantify what I interpret as right and wrong, continuously develop my personal morality and limit free creativity to productive ends.
Let's suppose you have created a small army of robots. They're great at getting things done, but they need input, something to do. Let's say you wanted to teach these robots to be autonomous, how would you start that. Probably have to program in some sort of algorythm to simulate creativity. You don't really want that to go unrestrained or it could backfire and destroy your house. You'd need to progam in some sort of morality (rule set) to limit creativity. That way the AI could experience free creativity, and develop, through experience, what's right and wrong.
That's what free will means to me, an opportunity to quantify what I interpret as right and wrong, continuously develop my personal morality and limit free creativity to productive ends.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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