Jesus Factory
I read an interesting story a while ago...so the basic question was "How will robots change religion?"
Does a robot need to surrender to Christ to reach heaven?...ha, absurd ;) How about karma and reincarnation? What's the version of a RoboBuddhist?
AI, like religion, is a product of our brain. We use our imagination to create a mythology; if the mythology is taken seriously, it becomes a cult. The cult upsets a social balance and is either outcast or, in the span of generations if not centuries, convinces enough people that its story is valid. It becomes a religion, staring down at others like it was once gazed skeptically upon. The hunted becomes the hunter.
An infinite regress will surely emerge as an explanation: God created humans created robots...
Weekend thoughts:
http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/how-will-robots-change-religion
Animation: industrial robot creating Messiah...or vice versa ;)
#AI #religion #perspective
The difference with humans is that robots will not raise temples and idols which to prostrate themselves before
ReplyDeleteI guess the continuation to that sequence is Robots create Gods... My scifi brain can see unlimited possibilities!
ReplyDeleteThat gif sure is a matter for contemplation.
ReplyDeleteQui s'y crut s'y fie...
Oil baths? Jean DAVID
ReplyDeleteThe real question with AI is if robots will have the depth to lead humans ?
ReplyDeleteInteresting... human slaves
ReplyDeletegordon hoselton ;)
Corina Marinescu are we not evolved as slaves already ? simply requiring leadership as a species since the beginning of time ? and now in our Intelligence simply trying to create leadership....? in our species true weakness..
ReplyDeleteUmmmm ...that's debatable :D
ReplyDeleteJean DAVID That depends on how we program them.
ReplyDeleteCorina Marinescu If we program to learn from us, then they may learn from believers and will do things that seem absurd to non-believers.
ReplyDeleteThe effect on religion depends on how we implement the programming of the AI.
Great thought provoking post! :-)
Corina Marinescu ,smiling ,begging the question....
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that will be a good reason to build even much more churches and temples Tarlac ShadowBlade ...for every earthling and droid :D
ReplyDeletePerhaps the modern religions are the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple. People can spend more time with them and believing what is published or discovered via them than family and/or friends
ReplyDeleteWhy do we dance? Why do we sing? I'd like to believe a sublime programming will harmonize AI in the same way music gives wings to ones mind and guide its evolution towards a progressive symphony of enlightenment. A type of overarching programming inherent in the cosmos. Nice to romanticize such things. 😎
ReplyDeleteIn his book "the world before yesterday" Jared Diamond wrote a bunch about how religion and society interact, as society increases in complexity from small tribes to large states, and the various ways in which religion serves to comfort people and reinforce the status quo. It's interesting reading, and makes for a more complex evaluation of why religion is ubiquitous.
ReplyDeleteLOL speed up production!!
ReplyDeleteif the robot knows he exist then he also knows that may exist a superior intelligence, and of course if genetic engineering can remake the human body, a more intelligent robots will certainly build his own body, if he know how to do, a still higher intelligence than a robot can ? Corina ;)
ReplyDeleteas you see, we do not use our imagination! We use our logic.
ReplyDeleteyou consider a robot like piece of iron, but if the robot is aware he is as a human being, if the logic will tell him that there is a higher being he believe in him just as they had been doing human beings, he will for logic not for imagination.
ReplyDeleteReligion is no doubt an evolutionary thing and as far as I can tell, nothing more than a speculative narrative to communicate a simplistic view of our holistic existence. How we got here, why we do what we do, what makes us happy and what the probably goal of our species might or should be. Something as futile as trying to catch the stars with a butterfly net. But I do believe any and all species has a version of this and that AI too would stipulate rules of their own to live by. The alternative is to become a self-destructive organism like that of humanity.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bump , I'll look that up...danke ;)
ReplyDeleteYour logic is broken Vince...I call it psychosis :D
ReplyDeleteHenrik Ohlin
ReplyDeleteInteresting...I like that.
Tu sei una bella ragazza e ti perdono volentieri la tua!!! Psicosi Cori: ti senti sola e abbandonata in un universo vuoto, buio, e triste, ma ti sbagli! L'intelligenza non si ferma all'uomo, ma prosegue senza limiti! L'universo è pieno di vita e di intelligenza. E una intelligenza senza limiti è anche capace di infinita tecnologia! Una superiore intelligenza non fa schiavi, ma ama le creature piu deboli anche se non riesce a comunicare bene con essi. A causa dell'enorme abisso intellettuale.
ReplyDeleteVince cut it out! I don't feel abandoned or anything. Indeed the Universe is vast and full of possibilities, but worshiping a deity created by human minds is not logic...
ReplyDeleteÈ questo il tuo errore pensare che sia la mente umana a creare la Divinità . La mente umana è logica! E se prolungo una semi retta, il suo valore massimo è infinito, questo lo só, e lo sai anche tu, anche se tu e io non siamo mai stati all'infinito. Lol 😘
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