(January 17, 2018 at 10:34 am)Martian Mermaid Wrote: Do you think that gives the AI the ability to believe something deeply, as a religious person would?
Why not? If the emergence of intelligence gives rise to the emergence of imagination, anything could happen. It doesn't say much for religious people though; especially if such an AI still decided to be atheist.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
