Artificial Intelligencethe Soul or the Cyborg

Melinda MileonNovember 14, 2012

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Which is better?• There are many people in the world

who believe in God, and then there are many people in the world who believe in science, who’s to know

which is better or correct.

The Kurzweil-Gelernter Debate

Ray Kurzweil

• Mastering human emotion and human language is really key to the Turing test, which has held up as our exemplary assessment of whether or not a non-biological intelligence has achieved human levels of intelligence. And as we build machines that can interact with us better and really master human intelligence, that’s going to be the frontier.

David Gelernter

• Sometimes people describe spirituality—to move finally to the last topic—as a feeling of oneness with the universe or a universal flow through the mind, a particular mode of thought and style of thought. In principle, you could get a computer to do that. But people who strike me as spiritual describe spirituality as a physical need or want. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God, as the Book of Psalm says. Can we build a robot with a physical need for a non-physical thing? Maybe, but don’t count on it.

Artificial Intelligence, and the Singularity Factor, what is it

anyway ?

• Artificial Intelligence is:the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior • Singularity Factor:• a moment when computers will

become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity — our bodies, our minds, our civilization — will be completely and irreversibly transformed singularly.

God’s Promise and Sin

• In the Bible God promises that one day we will have everlasting life, but we have to fulfill a covenant with God. Once we do we can understand our spiritual side again, we can remove sin.

• We originally had it but lost it to sin. And because of that to God. We have inherited sin and all it’s evils. And until we can get past sin, we don’t need to try to live forever in sin.

Body, Soul our Spirit“The Soul” consists of a person's mind, will, emotions and intelligence.

“The Spirit" is the core of our lives -- the

center of our existence. "Spirit" makes us

aware of God, angels, demons.

“Our Bodies” of course consist of Flesh and Blood, bones, and organs.

Why is this important?

33%

21%

22%

16%

8%

Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number

of Adherents

Chrisianity

Islam

Judaism

Nonreligious

All other re-ligions

• Although this is not about Religion. I just want to point out all the people In the World versus all the people who don’t believe in some form of a God.

• As we can see the majority 92% of the world are spiritual, while only 8% of the world does not.

• How will this affect the 92%?

• Will they have a choice?

The fight for Control

Could we lose our power over our Robots?• Would we be

able to control these Super Intelligent Robots, or would they end up controlling us? And even later killing off our species?

Would we need to integrate in order to keep up?• And in order to

control them or keep up with them would be need to integrate our own bodies, and would we stay human or Cyborg?

So, why would we do all of this? Because these

Super Intelligent robots or computers could do

wonders for our lives. They could help saves

lives, our planet, and also help us to live longer.

According To Kurzweil, Robot with Super Intelligence and to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about

35 years away.The future is fast approaching when it could become a reality. But remember that one

day you may wake up and find out that you are

no longer you, but look more like this…

Brooks, R. (2006, December 6). Gelernter and Kurzweil debate machine conscience. Retrieved from Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence: http://www.kurzweilai.net/gelernter-kurzweil-debate-machine-consciousness-2

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