When the human body dies, the consciousness gets absorbed back into the cosmic consciousness. There is no individual "soul" that remains, reincarnates in another human body after nine days in the Bardo.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : So Sal what do you think happens to the individual human awareness when the body wears out? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sa...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : It wears out too as it's part of the body. No more body, no more awareness. When the body dies, along with it's senses, only the pure consciousness remains. Only consciousness exists absolutely. If there was no consciousness, then existence would disappear for everyone and there would be no common constructed character of knowing. But, we know that things and events do occur after someone dies, but not for the dying individual. Everyone else that remains alive will continue to be conscious of thoughts, actions, etc. I'm happy to receive evidence to the contrary though and won't be disappointed if I get into heaven, not that there's much chance of that.... Non sequitur. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 11:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Fine, but could Google's computer's algorithmic intelligence host a soul like happens spiritually in the carbon form of a human being? It depends what you mean by "soul". If you think we have a detachable thing that goes on to some other world after we die then I'm sure I could programme a computer to believe it in the way we are. I think any self-improving and self-replicating machine would judge things on an evidential basis as it's the only way to improve ultimate performance. No point clinging on to outdated ideas if you want to get somewhere intellectually. So I think even if we programmed our robots to think they have souls they would test and evaluate the notion and decide they are better of not wasting good processing time on fairy tales. They would live more for the moment and use the time more constructively without any irrelevant distractions designed to make them happier about their lot. If you just mean an awareness that being alive is a good thing then yeah, they could have souls... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : When intelligence becomes intelligent consciousness becomes conscious.. Would you think Google could pull off self-referral consciousness or just algorithmic intelligence? It depends what you mean by "self referral". If a computer could see and hear and respond independently of it's programming to the world then it what way is it not conscious like us? Even seeing and hearing are limited, we perceive very little of our surroundings. A computer based intelligence might be aware far beyond what we are capable of and think us puny because of it. And they are already working on programmes that can improve themselves, this takes "self referral" to another level does it not? What I'm getting at is that we have this opinion that we are special simply by virtue of our ability to ponder the matter. But we could be designing something so much more impressive in our terms than what nature did for us. But first we have to understand ourselves - that's the tricky bit. But not impossible because we are things made of stuff. Or we could bypass human mimicry and build something innately superior in every way. Exciting times. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Brain upgrades on the way at the very least... it's like we actually want to make ourselves obsolete! Google a step closer to developing machines with human-like intelligence http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-step-closer-to-developing-machines-with-human-like-intelligence http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-step-closer-to-developing-machines-with-human-like-intelligence Google a step closer to developing machines with... http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-step-closer-to-developing-machines-with-human-like-intelligence An algorithm developed by Google is designed to encode thought, which could lead to computers with ‘common sense’ within a decade, says leading AI scientist View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-step-closer-to-developing-machines-with-human-like-intelligence Preview by Yahoo
