Computer \"reads\" memories... (Humans)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 20:33 (5160 days ago) @ xeno6696


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> > However, if your answer is design, it opens up vast new avenues of thought, all of which can be subsumed under the one question: what is the nature of the designer? I won't go into the rest, because it constitutes theology ... the "study of divine things", which is almost a contradiction in terms if you follow the line of thought that proclaims God is unknowable! But that's what the explanation "does". In David's case (sorry, David, only I need to refer to you as our only committed theist), it leads to panentheism. 
 
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> I'm not very concerned with detailing the aspects of a creature that we don't know exists, because I really think doing so beforehand causes more problems than they solve.-Your second paragraph follows my thinking completely. The only thing one can attempt to assume about God is that He is the creator and designer, but even that is suspect. Perhaps He was created and designed by a greater being to then do the creating and designing, or to simply be part of the created and designed as a 'moral' leader. We just don't know and can never know. So thinking is best stopped and do no further seeking, because it is like my poodle chasing his tail. Satisfying, no! Reasonable stopping point, yes. As all of us know, I choose God because the chance inference is impossible, despite Matt's rather mathematically stretched objections.