In a message dated 9/17/00 9:28:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
QueeneMUSE@aol.com writes:
<< Well, Joseph Campbell insisted that God was made completely of our
thoughts,
a self-activating metaphor for the energies that surround us ...and that the
god construct we imagine guides our actions. In that capacity it has a use.
Dunno if we can make a computer be a god, which seems to be what some of us
are asking for --- but we can certainly "make" new metaphors from our
thoughts - create new myths... experience ecstasy, wonder awe - and guide
ourselves into good actions -- "overactive god modules" or not!
I'd base my metaphor/god on compassion, vitality, loving acts,
contradiction
and humor! >>
This is very interesting and goes along with what Damien Broderick noted ( in
his book, The Spike) about writer, Gregory Benford, concerning his concept of
memes being, perhaps, the highest level of existence in the universe. Please
also realize that this climbing the Jacob's Ladder of evolution, may well
take thousands to Quadrillions of years to accomplish.
There is enough time to be an atheist, enough time to develop some decent
technologies, enough time to advance medicine, and social organization, and
economics, time enough time to lessen entropy's grip on the human condition,
and time enough to expand, asymtotically, into outer space. It won't be "us
humans" making a computer a god anyway, but it will be our descendents, who
may be less into worshipping idols, human and otherwise, then us.
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