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Originally posted by Good Wolf
No, I expect no one to prove it. You're not listening,
No there is choice, just no free will. You choose, but your choice is predetermined. Again, you weren't listening.
I don't listen to your words themselves.
You can tell me you aren't looking for others to prove it, but that isn't what I look at. What I look at is what you are saying behind your words. I do not listen, I hear.
When you ask for proof, then you are asking for someone to prove something to you. Even if you ask god for proof, you are still asking god to prove it to you. You can say whatever you want, but I know the truth because I don't look at your claims.
If it is predetermined, then it's not a choice period.
You listen, but you do not hear.
Originally posted by Good Wolf
Yes it is. Choice is a logical process of selection, exactly the same principle that applies to Artificial Intelligence. It's predetermined and it is not free will.
For someone who hears, not much gets through.
The reason you stupidly think that if it's predetermined then it's not a choice you made is because you don't understand what a choice actually is. Choice is a process that occurs in a deterministic system called the mind.
Evolution joke incoming!!!
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
Good Wolf,
Tell me if you believe this is possible or not;
One day, a huge hurricane plows right through a junk yard. After the dust settled, a huge working jet aircraft is sitting right there. Some how, the hurricane had created this aircraft out of all the junk, with all systems intact. The flight controls, navigation controls, all the software needed to run all those electronic systems... everything working perfectly!
You think that is possible?
But please, continue to tell the programmer who has actually worked on designing AI all about it. And please, continue to tell the programmer what is going on in his programs.
Tell me though. What do you know about AI? Truth is, you don't have a clue about it. You are just making claims about it in general based on myths you have read or heard.
Consciousness creates logic.
Originally posted by Gigatronix
You can disagree with evolution if you like, it's cool. but please don't insult our intelligence by assuming our understanding of it is rudimentary enough that this analogy would have any effect other than making you look foolish.
Ok to answer the question: is it possible? Not likely.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
Originally posted by Gigatronix
You can disagree with evolution if you like, it's cool. but please don't insult our intelligence by assuming our understanding of it is rudimentary enough that this analogy would have any effect other than making you look foolish.
The only one that looks foolish is you, because you judged me thinking that I don't believe in Evolution.
You also think I was trying to make a joke out of this, when I was seriously asking you a question.
You didn't even answer the question! SO VERY FOOLISH OF YOU.
F.Y.I. Evolution = Re-creation
I already mentioned that in this thread.... Are you blind?
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
One day, a huge hurricane plows right through a junk yard. After the dust settled, a huge working jet aircraft is sitting right there. Some how, the hurricane had created this aircraft out of all the junk, with all systems intact. The flight controls, navigation controls, all the software needed to run all those electronic systems... everything working perfectly!
Originally posted by Gigatronix
If I do believe it, I'm a fool, if I dont believe it then the next question usually asked is how can I believe in evolution when its essentially the same thing.
Originally posted by Gigatronix
FYI Evolution does not equal re-creation. You-re not re-creating the same thing, each subsequent life form is slighty different than the one that came before.
e⋅volve
1. to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
de⋅vel⋅op
1. to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
2. to cause to grow or expand: to develop one's muscles.
3. to elaborate or expand in detail: to develop a theory.
4. to bring into being or activity; generate; evolve.
cre⋅ate
1. to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
2. to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.
Originally posted by Good Wolf
"The truth is" Your hazarding a guess as to my knowledge about AI.
You're a programmer, so it should make this conversation easier. Human "Consciousness", AI and predestination.
Consciousness creates logic.
Nhh. That will be a difficult claim to substantiate being as how consciousness a convoluted meaning changing from context to context. Usually it means a human-esque degree of self awareness and sense of individuality.
AI is similar in principle to the human mind in that they are logical systems. The function of the systems vary hugely but they all use logic to achieve a goal or pursue an end.
Your AI, which buys and sells, has the goal of making profit. To do this, on top of giving it logical instructions on how to do it, then you give it an amount of awareness; markets and networks etc.
Human beings work in the same manner, instead of simple goals we have Categorical imperative determining all that we do. The drive to eat, sleep, preserve self, reproduce etc.
We have choice as part of our ability to function, once again, a logical process which is deterministic.
For a will to be considered "free", we must understand it as capable of affecting causal power without being caused to do so. But the idea of lawless free will, that is, a will acting without any causal structure, is incomprehensible. Therefore, a free will must be acting under laws that it gives to itself.
Are you trying to drag this in to heated argument, just because you don't like me?
Originally posted by Gigatronix
Personally it looks like your beliefs are all over the place.One post your talking about Jesus, your sig has scripture in it, your telling me i cant debate God, but apparently you dont believe in the god youre defending. Which is fine, I got nothing against that. But you don't know anymore than I do, so please stop talking like your a couple rungs up on the ladder.
Way to misquote me there, leaving out the (in the mind of the person asking the question)
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
So you don't believe it is possible, AND, you understand the logic behind the analogy argument..... I think you contradict yourself.
I didn't say I didn't believe it was possible, I said it wasn't likely. big difference. You're really grasping at straws here.
You know you would be a fool to believe it to be possible, and you also know that you will look like a fool if you didn't believe it was possible...
No, you said evolution=recreation. Recreating is the process of attempting to make the same thing. Most people fail, but if they could they would, because that's what theyre trying to do. Maybe you need to use a more appropriate word in your theory.
Did I say "evolution = re-creating the same thing"? NO!
Are you implying that I'm possessed? I always thought it was reading comprehension...
Some how, a little devil in your head gave you the wrong impression when you read my words, and you lied to yourself. Which is a problem that should be looked at...
Aha see you're admitting that you're trying to make a copy of the painting, which is recreating. You're not trying to evolve anything, you're trying to duplicate it, and by failing to do so you are also failing at recreating it.
If I re-created a painting I saw, even if I tried to make it perfectly identical, there would always be a slight difference, a slight change, and no matter what, it will never be exactly the same as the original. In a manner of speaking the image "evolved". If someone tried to re-create the painting that I created, they would be painted a picture that has evolved from another picture.
All this implies a sentient creator or designer, leading back to my original point that your belief is closer to creationism or intelligent design, but you say your"god" is not a being but the whole universe, which has no consciousness.
Do you not understand where the word "evolution"came from?
e⋅volve
1. to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
DEVELOP??
de⋅vel⋅op
1. to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
2. to cause to grow or expand: to develop one's muscles.
3. to elaborate or expand in detail: to develop a theory.
4. to bring into being or activity; generate; evolve.
TO BRING INTO BEING????
cre⋅ate
1. to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
2. to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.
yet you are talking about 2. you talk about God, Jesus, and the Bible then you talk about this:
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
I don't believe in the God I am defending? What God do you think I am defending? There is only 1.
If you wnat to say God is the laws of nature, then yes god is all life and we are all one, because we all are bound by the laws of nature. But you were defending the Jesus/ Bible God.
No strings attached, no rules or commandments to follow, no guidelines, no decades old hand-me-down scriptures, no "religion"... just a definition for the word "God", which was meant to be "THE TOTAL OF ALL BEING, AND ALL THAT IS AND EVER WILL BE".
You might know the definition of evolve but you are using it wrong in conjunction with recreate.And even if you are using it right, you still dont know the truth anymore than I do. It's all speculation and conjecture on both of our parts. You dont KNOW. Because if it were indisputable fact, someone alot smarter than you would have figured it out a long time ago and there would be no debate, everyone would know and accept it.
I don't know any more than you do??? AT LEAST I KNOW THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD "EVOLVE".
Originally posted by Gigatronix
Way to misquote me there, leaving out the (in the mind of the person asking the question)
Originally posted by Gigatronix
I didn't say I didn't believe it was possible, I said it wasn't likely. big difference. You're really grasping at straws here.
Originally posted by Gigatronix
No, you said evolution=recreation. Recreating is the process of attempting to make the same thing.
re-cre⋅ate
–verb (used with object), -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.
1: to create anew.
a⋅new
–adverb
1. over again; again; once more: to play the tune anew.
2. in a new form or manner: to write the story anew.
Originally posted by Gigatronix
Are you implying that I'm possessed? I always thought it was reading comprehension...
Originally posted by Gigatronix
Aha see you're admitting that you're trying to make a copy of the painting, which is recreating. You're not trying to evolve anything, you're trying to duplicate it, and by failing to do so you are also failing at recreating it.
Originally posted by Gigatronix
All this implies a sentient creator or designer,
Originally posted by Gigatronix
but you say your"god" is not a being but the whole universe, which has no consciousness.
Which is it?
Originally posted by Gigatronix
If you wnat to say God is the laws of nature, then yes god is all life and we are all one, because we all are bound by the laws of nature. But you were defending the Jesus/ Bible God.
So you admit asking a baited question, glad youre honest.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
I didn't miss quote you, I just removed what was irrelevant to my point. The point being, that you know and understand the purpose of the question I asked... and you dodged answering the question because you know no matter what you will look like a fool..
Yep you asked a yes or no question because thats how its baited. Thats how you get some smarmy response in, by having a retort prepared for both answers. Now your trying to get a zinger off on me because I said not likely. Only a fool would try to answer a question with a yes or no when its impossible to say for sure either way. You obviosly deal in absolutes which is your fatal flaw.
Grasping at straws??? I ask you a yes or no question, and you answer with a "maybe". You are dodging the question because you know that no matter what, you will look foolish.
Originally posted by Gigatronix
No, you said evolution=recreation. Recreating is the process of attempting to make the same thing.
Good job leaving the definition in that supports my definition! Thanks!You do know that the first definition appearing in a dictionary si the more commonly used usage than the following right?
"Attempting to make the same thing"??? WHAT? I just posted the definition of create, it said nothing about trying to make the same thing. Should I post a definition for re-create now???
re-cre⋅ate
–verb (used with object), -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.
1: to create anew.
a⋅new
–adverb
1. over again; again; once more: to play the tune anew.
yes I'm aware that it was analogy, obviously you are not aware that I was being facetious. And according to how you explained your analogy, I'm possessed. So you were apparently being figurative and literal at the same time. Like I said, you're all over the place.
No I used an analogy, like many scriptures do. You are exaggerating my analogy, thinking I am actually literally talking about "the devil".
Have you not ever seen the analogy of an Angel and Demon sitting on the shoulders of a man? It's represents the man's thoughts of good and evil.
When you lie to yourself, I consider that a Demon thought.
I agree what you say implies this, I'm not agreeing with you.
I'm glad you agree.
how do you know it?
How do you know the universe doesn't have a consciousness??
Bunk logic if I ever heard it.
I have consciousness, so that means the universe has a consciousness.
And you'd be a fool to go around saying this as if it were fact. think it, believe it all you want. Doesn't make it true. Sorry. It might be true but you dont know, you just THINK it really hard.
My brain, is made of millions of electrons and protons and neutrons that combine together and make consciousness. I would be a fool to think that all these Stars, Planets, and Galaxies, and humans, don't some how combine together to create a greater consciousness.
We dont agree. I dont call the laws of nature god, I call them the laws of nature. We are "one" by virtue of saying we are all bound by the same laws. And we can't even say that for certain because we dont know what kind of life forms exist elsewhere in the universe that exist in such a way that opposes our KNOWN laws. We dont know all the laws.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
Yes, we are ALL ONE. I'm glad you can agree now..
Back to this again! In my previous post I quoted you saying the definition of god has
I think you need to read the Bible again. It states many times that God, Jesus, and everything is ONE....
So if we attempt to combine your two definitions, there is no cosmic mandate(remember that??) but there is a heaven or hell, but theres no strings attached or rules, so you cant be punished or rewarded. It doesn't make any sense!
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
No strings attached, no rules or commandments to follow, no guidelines, no decades old hand-me-down scriptures, no "religion"... just a definition for the word "God", which was meant to be "THE TOTAL OF ALL BEING, AND ALL THAT IS AND EVER WILL BE".