RE: This week's fun papers

From: xllb (xllb@home.com)
Date: Sat Apr 15 2000 - 15:00:48 MDT


Thank you for the links and reviews.

I'm having great fun, mentally masticating the "Superior Createe" concept.
Am I wrong or doesn't it follow evolution's course? If we can create
entities that are greater than ourselves, is it reasonable to imagine that
this ability is "omniversly" unique to us?

xllb

>Anders Sandberg
>Kevin Kelly, Nerd Theology, in Technology in Society 21 (1999)
>387--392

>Points out that the term god has acquired new meanings in the computer
>world different from traditional theology. Instead of being a term for
>supreme being, it denotes a creator entity of a system, something that
>creates something else out of a state of nothingness. Kelly also
>points out (as does several of the other papers in this issue) that
>"'God created man in His own image' is a recursive statement" (from
>Sussman's Ph.D. thesis) and that there can be chains of entities
>creating other entities - and that later entities doesn't have to be
>inferior to their creators.



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