(April 21, 2015 at 9:49 pm)whateverist Wrote: ... The idea of the character Data from Star Trek is fun but bogus ...And why say you that? It is very probable that science will eventually understand the brain enough to replicate it in some form. Science has been pretty good at finding what makes things tick and then replicating it. The world is flat and the sun goes around it. Anything is possible.
... But the idea of Data wrestling with the concept of self and assimilating more and more human traits is just good fiction. It isn't quite up there with the idea of a creator god. But it is fairly silly stuff ...
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
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-- Superintendent Chalmers
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-- Ned Flanders
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
