---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
Ann, Please, read my reply to Salyavin reply regarding the difference between believing and knowing. IMO, the human brain with its body is capable of knowing the Divine Being. The obstacle to this knowledge is the human ego, which often thinks that it is the god and nothing else is above it. Hence, we have the story of disobedience on the part of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. However, when enlightenment occurs in a human being, the human mind and It are one residing in the human body. As such, the fortunate human being can truly live heaven here on earth. But, as we can see, humans are still functioning at the gross level of the ego which is the cause of wars, violence, greed and poverty. Suffice is it to say that it's not far above animal existence. I often experience it to be far below animal experience and I mean this very sincerely. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : ---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.
