---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
IMO, I don't believe artificial intelligence can know God. Knowing God requires a biological base, with a complicated connections of nerve cells in the brain and a body structure made of bones, flesh and blood. First, I would have to define what it is to "know" God. Have I realized he/she/it exists? Have I become enlightened? Have I seen he/she/it? Do I live the "reality" of God every moment? Did I realize him/her/it for a while and later lost that? How do I define "artificial intelligence" beyond the circuits and electronics of it? I don't, I can't understand what another's experience is, let alone a circuit board's. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote : This article is full of inaccurate generalities about Buddhism and shows ignorance about the foundations of the varied darshana-s of the Indian subcontinent. Since most current Euro-American "thinkers" who consider consciousness and AI are philosophical amateurs, this article is a display of truncated post-empirical/analytic musings. How about this question instead? Can an artificial intelligence know God? This is an equivalent counter-question, which means it is a panapoly of foolish assumptions posing as intelligent inquiry.