While it can be fun to attack old books, I think it is also important to bitch slap si fi woo as well. There are people who rightfully reject the old stuff but want to treat a energy wave as having the same ability of cognition by itself without the same structure as a living human being. Basically it is simply replacing the religious watchmaker argument with a Star Trek version where that giant cognition is a huge computer programmer instead of a god. Yes energy can and does get to a level of producing material and yes, after we die our atoms and energy will go onto other things.
But to think after we are gone "we" meaning our cognition will, is absurd. It would be like assuming if you pumped gas out of a nozzle it would suddenly become the entire car. Some idiots I think take the idea of artificial intelligence, the ability for computers to think and learn, means that we are in a giant computer lab ourselves? Men In Black nor Star Trek are anymore science than a holy book. There is no "watchmaker", be it the cognition of your old god claims, nor are we in a giant computer with some giant guy, limited in power writing a computer program to produce us. It is simply a a new version of the old watchmaker argument.
This is merely an unthinking weather pattern in which energy collected to the point of being macro which allowed our cognition as an outcome. A wave by itself cannot act like the entire in tact structure we call human cognition. We are not in a giant computer we are not the products of binary code like a program. Anymore than DNA was manufactured by desert god.
But to think after we are gone "we" meaning our cognition will, is absurd. It would be like assuming if you pumped gas out of a nozzle it would suddenly become the entire car. Some idiots I think take the idea of artificial intelligence, the ability for computers to think and learn, means that we are in a giant computer lab ourselves? Men In Black nor Star Trek are anymore science than a holy book. There is no "watchmaker", be it the cognition of your old god claims, nor are we in a giant computer with some giant guy, limited in power writing a computer program to produce us. It is simply a a new version of the old watchmaker argument.
This is merely an unthinking weather pattern in which energy collected to the point of being macro which allowed our cognition as an outcome. A wave by itself cannot act like the entire in tact structure we call human cognition. We are not in a giant computer we are not the products of binary code like a program. Anymore than DNA was manufactured by desert god.
