The more complex a system, e.g. the more abstract the calculations a system can perform, the less distinct the concept of mind becomes from complexity.
In speculative AI constructs, there's an idea that employing more than the two variables in binary logic, and relying on fuzzy logic or the 4-base "language" we see in DNA could be used to build systems so complex as to be indistinguishable from a kind of mind. Even viewed long-form, the idea of evolution has characteristics that fool the uninformed into thinking "oh hey, there's an entity here. This system is making choices, and learning from its mistakes in a rudimentary way."
Which is why I don't see how any theist would reject an incredibly old universe, or earth.
We see enormously complex systems over vast spans of time giving at least the appearance of some kind of processing power, and the argument for some sort of hive-mind of God being emergent from extreme complexity would seem to have some merit, if we were to discard anthropomorphism.
But perhaps the idea itself is characteristic of our habit of projecting our own minds onto everything around us, the same as animism.
In speculative AI constructs, there's an idea that employing more than the two variables in binary logic, and relying on fuzzy logic or the 4-base "language" we see in DNA could be used to build systems so complex as to be indistinguishable from a kind of mind. Even viewed long-form, the idea of evolution has characteristics that fool the uninformed into thinking "oh hey, there's an entity here. This system is making choices, and learning from its mistakes in a rudimentary way."
Which is why I don't see how any theist would reject an incredibly old universe, or earth.
We see enormously complex systems over vast spans of time giving at least the appearance of some kind of processing power, and the argument for some sort of hive-mind of God being emergent from extreme complexity would seem to have some merit, if we were to discard anthropomorphism.
But perhaps the idea itself is characteristic of our habit of projecting our own minds onto everything around us, the same as animism.
