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Posted by Gigi on March 03, 2000 at 14:30:19:

In Reply to: Re: That's cool! posted by Hal on March 03, 2000 at 13:42:31:

...exists. It is again the emergent entity of all the minds from here to eternity. It is the Absolute Truth which one cannot fathom with the singular human mind.

So maybe we can stop assigning jobs and traits to God like giving us souls/saving us/forgiving, so on and so forth.

In this case belief in God means belief in The Whole, The Law of Everything which governs us by its rules (Analogy: We understand Newton's Laws and the Law of Gravity and accept the extent to which these laws govern our existence.).

Accept this and believe in yourself, in your capacity to show you how you can best survive life and you are probably just fine.

Gigi

> > Well if one could make a quantum computer with as many quantum particles
> > as the human brain then hopefully one just has to hook up some kind of
> > sensory inputs to the environment and some kind of physical outputs to the
> > environment and the quantum computer would program itself and be self
> > aware just like a human baby... the difference between a quantum computer
> > and a conventional one is that a quantum computer has links to possible
> > futures, it has parallel processing for each bit of memory, and it
> > operates using probabilities instead of being deterministic... IBM's 4 bit
> > quantum computer is able to do the equivalent of always choosing the one
> > door of four that has something behind it... a conventional computer
> > would have to open on average more than two doors... this is equivalent
> > to a human brain being able to form a thought without having to
> > consciously run through all the possible thoughts... John

> That's the whole question in my mind: is conscisousness simply a matter of having a critical number of quantum particles (i.e. does it arise from the physical) or does it come from someplace else, making it something you can't create in a lab? Is Ryan right, that spirituality is garbage, or is there a God, a soul, etc?

> BTW, BlueLamp, where in IBM do you work? I'm in Research Triangle Park, NC, in the PowerPC Embedded Processor group. I know you posted some things about yourself a while back, but I've forgotten it, so I'm sorry if I already asked you this.

> - Hal -

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> ...exists. It is again the emergent entity of all the minds from here to eternity. It is the Absolute Truth which one cannot fathom with the singular human mind. > So maybe we can stop assigning jobs and traits to God like giving us souls/saving us/forgiving, so on and so forth. > In this case belief in God means belief in The Whole, The Law of Everything which governs us by its rules (Analogy: We understand Newton's Laws and the Law of Gravity and accept the extent to which these laws govern our existence.). > Accept this and believe in yourself, in your capacity to show you how you can best survive life and you are probably just fine. > Gigi > > > > Well if one could make a quantum computer with as many quantum particles > > > as the human brain then hopefully one just has to hook up some kind of > > > sensory inputs to the environment and some kind of physical outputs to the > > > environment and the quantum computer would program itself and be self > > > aware just like a human baby... the difference between a quantum computer > > > and a conventional one is that a quantum computer has links to possible > > > futures, it has parallel processing for each bit of memory, and it > > > operates using probabilities instead of being deterministic... IBM's 4 bit > > > quantum computer is able to do the equivalent of always choosing the one > > > door of four that has something behind it... a conventional computer > > > would have to open on average more than two doors... this is equivalent > > > to a human brain being able to form a thought without having to > > > consciously run through all the possible thoughts... John > > That's the whole question in my mind: is conscisousness simply a matter of having a critical number of quantum particles (i.e. does it arise from the physical) or does it come from someplace else, making it something you can't create in a lab? Is Ryan right, that spirituality is garbage, or is there a God, a soul, etc? > > BTW, BlueLamp, where in IBM do you work? I'm in Research Triangle Park, NC, in the PowerPC Embedded Processor group. I know you posted some things about yourself a while back, but I've forgotten it, so I'm sorry if I already asked you this. > > - Hal -

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