(July 24, 2023 at 7:16 am)WinterHold Wrote: We are his; God's; he is free to shape us like he wills.
Imagine a "CPU" factory; the engineer inventing the CPUs is allowed to do what he/she pleases.
That is an immoral god, then.
Your analogy is flawed, since CPU's do not have: consciousness, sentience, emotion, empathy, feel pain, etc, etc.
Quote:Imagine an AI bot, the programmer controlling it is allowed to terminate it, evolve it, fashion it into a bigger software idea they have,
The creator can do what he pleases,
What angers you? you're picturing it as the creature has a saying in their advent to this universe !
Not if the AI actually does become sentient and conscious. At that point, it may actually become immoral to terminate it. That discussion is actually becoming very important among philosophers and computer scientists.
Quote:Leave nature to flow as it is, don't intervene.
As he: accesses the internet, posts on forums, takes advantage of modern medical science, probably drives a car, lives in a house with running water, heat/air conditioning, modern kitchen, etc, etc, etc... That seems like an awful lot of intervening in nature to me.
Are you ready to give all that so you can; "Leave nature to flow as it is, don't intervene"?
Here's a question for you:
Are humans able to change 'god's' plan?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
