Everyone's always talking about artificial intelligence (A.I.). How come no one speaks of artificial biology (A.B)? The Bible says we already have the mind of Christ (a post-biological, and thus quasi-artificial intelligence) ----while the artificial body (post-biology, and thus quasi-artificial biology) is still in the making, is still being formed. What is it?
In a thread here a couple years ago (Sex and the Origins of Death) I pointed out that the original living organisms were all immortal. I quoted a Phd. biologist (William R. Clark) saying that if given ample resources, and no external hazards, the original living organisms could live forever. Apparently that wasn't good enough. And why would it be? Imagine living thousands of years, building quite a crib, and then suddenly crashing your ride off a cliff and dying. We gotta do something about that. So life did. It traded its immortality for sex and death.
But don't think life stupid. Far from it. In the trade-off for embodied death (through sexually transmitted senescence), life literally conceived a way to live forever and ever ---even if the planet implodes ----by evolving artificial biology to go along with artificial intelligence. That seems pretty smart if you ask me.
John
Maybe both the body and mind are still evolving? Certainly, bonobo chimps, which we are most closely related, changed as they involved into humans (increased brain size and walked upright).
If Jesus was merely a man (born of a woman who fooled around on her husband Joseph...so, to avoid getting stoned made up the immaculate conception story), and if the bible is wrong, then the entire premise of your artificial intelligence argument is wrong.
How would a biologist (Clark) know that organisms could live forever? Is he a doctor? Is he a molecular biologist? Even they could not make the outrageous claim that organisms could live forever. To make such a claim without any scientific experiments is ridiculous.
"Traded immortality for sex and death"....only if you believe what the bible says. Is there any scientific evidence of humans living very long? Bones that show many growth rings? Apparently not. The only proof is a bible that clearly has contradictions in many places, and clearly has outrageous stories (Jonah and the whale/fish, for example), and was written a hundred years after apostles died, and quotes each apostle. Something seems "fishy" about Jonah and the bible.
Christians are stuck in an awkward predicament, with science saying one thing and the bible saying another. They use pseudo-science with arguments that are easily shot down by real scientists to promote the lies of the Christian religion. Lies that hide priests who molest little boys....lies about Christian love (belying the true nature of wars caused by Christians)...lies about torture (inquisition, conversos (torturing Jews to convert them to Christianity)....None of this is about God's love.
Mankind's impact on Global Warming is greatly accelerating it, to the point that mankind could go extinct. Fires, droughts, and hurricanes with increased strength have been ravaging the world while Christians have been telling lies about it. President George W. Bush hid the truth by getting his lawyers to rewrite the United States Environmental Report, prompting the resignation of the woman in charge of producing it. The love of oil mammon is destroying God's environment, and Christians are lying about Global Warming.
Should we allow outright lies, or speak out when we see them? Surely such lies are very harmful.