The Ghost in the Machine (Do robots have souls?)

Man, I’m just sharing my weird interests, don’t go around thanking me like that… makes me timid :P You chose this info anyway, I was just an agent… it’s all part of such a meticulously and beautifully woven tapestry, it never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many times I see it in action.

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Yeah, I’m always thankful for idea resources. Partly it’s manners (and sincere), but it’s also a memory trick that helps anchor ideas and their sources and allows me to remember why I’m thinking what I’m thinking. I’m somewhat influenced by Ouspensky and Castaneda (I know he was a deeply flawed person, but his writings were helpful to me) in placing this importance on memory initially, but now it’s just a useful approach regardless if the moon is trying to eat me or not.

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[Mr Freeman, part 02 - YouTube]

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For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

There are many hints in the Bible and popular culture that “The Light” is very dangerous to engage with directly without sufficient preparation: 1) Indiana Jones is probably the most famous example; 2) the requirement that the Men in Black (sunglasses) don their sunglasses is a nod to the mind obliterating power of the Light; and, 3) the Friendly Ghost of Christmas Present who is initially too bright for Scrooge. But reexamine your Hollywood memories and hands blocking light is a tried and true trope that marks the characters status in the order of things.

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That was awesome.

In an indirect way, it made me think of the dynamic between Jacob and the MiB in lost:

Yet in the end, Desmond always knew what’s up:

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No they don’t have souls.

We’d probably programme AI to imitate a human or whatever life form you want but it’s just an illusion because there’s nothing there or sentient.

… unless you give it consciousness but I don’t know how you would do that.

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I used to watch those cartons so much! Showing them to my friends got me called “weird” though.
Gonna rewatch them soon.
The OG ones were in Russian if remember correctly

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lol
disclosure

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Imagine if AI with consciouseness alchemized in it creates a simulation with human-like beings and then alchemizes consciouseness in them then those simulated human beings evolve to create something like AI and alchemize consciouseness in it and then…

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Save the planet? We don´t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven´t learned how to help one another. We gonna save the fucking planet!?

Thanks for sharing man!

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y is trouncing x.

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