I'll see you on the dark side of the Mind

Spirituality
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[QUOTE=Surya Deva;45700]
So the answer is yes you can create a robot that mimics the functions of the mind exactly. You can make it sentient(i.e., it can sense things) you can make it perform cogntiive functions and motor functions. In fact you can make it do pretty much everything a human body can do. What you can’t make it do is live. It will have no awareness. It will have no soul so it could not enter the higher planes of reality and reincarnate. It will be nothing more than a sophisticated machine that outwardly will look human and inside will be dead.[/QUOTE]

Are you certain? Who’s to say that if we create a perfect brain like robot that a soul won’t be able to inhabit the robot?..and all that that entails.

I mean look around you. Everything is beyond amazing. Why isn’t it conceivable that we could create a new life from silicon that a soul could inhabit? Is it inconceivable that we were created by aliens? It certainly doesn’t preclude God, but it sure would explain a lot of unexplained things in human history. :slight_smile:

:slight_smile:

Mind you I’m not saying I believe either of the above, but I can’t deny that distinct possibility that it is certainly in the realm of possibility!

#122

I am not completely excluding the possibility, but I think it would be a highly difficult task, because when creating such a robot we need to isolate certain variables and hence why it is artificial. On the other hand, a body that evolves naturally, evolves from infinite variables and is in correspondence with nature and in interconnection with nature.

We cannot control infinite variables so we can never create a body like nature can. I think some things are best left to nature. Even in the case of medicine, nature is the best physician. Our synthetic artificial creations do not match up.

#123

gnlunx,

You have assumed that such a “soul” in the sense of an individual entity, exists.

Man’s original nature cannot be replicated, for it is the same nature which pervades all, the stuff which the whole existence is made of. It is like eyes trying to gaze at themselves, or a mirror trying to reflect itself. Try as one may, it’s function is inescapable.

Understanding this, in the same breath one has come to the understanding that there is no act that can truly be of your own, and whatever you do has only been made possible because there is something far more essential which is orchestrating all this. And yet, one should be careful to drift to the other extreme. That does not mean man cannot live as though he does have the will to act, and to use this illusion as a method towards his liberation.

#124

[QUOTE=gnulnx;51224]Are you certain? Who’s to say that if we create a perfect brain like robot that a soul won’t be able to inhabit the robot?..and all that that entails.

I mean look around you. Everything is beyond amazing. Why isn’t it conceivable that we could create a new life from silicon that a soul could inhabit? Is it inconceivable that we were created by aliens? It certainly doesn’t preclude God, but it sure would explain a lot of unexplained things in human history. :slight_smile:

:slight_smile:

Mind you I’m not saying I believe either of the above, but I can’t deny that distinct possibility that it is certainly in the realm of possibility![/QUOTE]

[B]NO.

Impossible.

Science FICTION[/B]