If it is possible to create artificial intelligence that operates identically to a human being, complete with consciousness, it suggests that there is no such thing as a "soul". In other words, there's nothing going on with humans beyond a collection of atoms, that could be replicated if you had a sophisticated enough 3d printer with the requisite resolution to effectively "print" a human. That obviously has huge implications for Abrahamic religion and explains why religious people are so dead set against the possibility.
__________________
"The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
|