I concede your point, Stue.
I had a thought about robots and atheism. When people share their homes with humanoid robots who are certain to come to be seen as companions as they'll be designed to take advantage of the human tendency to personify objects (if some of us treat our cars as if they were sentient beings, how many of us will treat something that can walk and talk as a sentient being?). In that situation I think it might be easier for people to come to grips with the idea that if Tobor and Robby don't have eternal spirits and can still seem so human-like, maybe humans don't have them either.
I had a thought about robots and atheism. When people share their homes with humanoid robots who are certain to come to be seen as companions as they'll be designed to take advantage of the human tendency to personify objects (if some of us treat our cars as if they were sentient beings, how many of us will treat something that can walk and talk as a sentient being?). In that situation I think it might be easier for people to come to grips with the idea that if Tobor and Robby don't have eternal spirits and can still seem so human-like, maybe humans don't have them either.
