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  Artificial Intelligence

  by dh in

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  what will it mean when man finally creates a machine or program that can think and is aware of itself...?

  do you think that day will ever come?

  would it alter your faith at all?

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  Artificial Intelligence doesn't mean sentient life. It is generally regarded as intelligence that would be created initially by man [woman]. Once a machine was advanced enough it would start improving on it's own design [name the movie anyone?? lol].

  The point when a machine starts to show intelligence is when it can learn from experience and modify it's behaviour based on the experience. Some early successes have been observed with spider like robots that have a limited "brain" but their program allows them to learn from their motions about the world around them and learning as they bump into things. The interesting thing is that the program was designed for them to not bump into things and to learn and adapt. Once they have discovered that there is an obstruction it is stored as a sort of living memory so to speak and they recall this and avoid it without the obstruction having been pre-programmed into them. This is an early development [and promising to the scientists] into AI although we won't be seeing a positronic brain for quite a few decades yet. When you start seeing AI built into cars, buildings, public transport it will be more in the vein of safety features -- but don't all Sci-Fi movies start like that??? lol

  Actual self awareness is a totally different subject. When a machine can create, one might think that it has reached a level of sentience. Forget Turing and his "child machine" theory I don't think we will ever see that in any lifetime.

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  The "What If" Game

  by copsec in

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  i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

  so i will start off with....... .

  what if animals could talk?

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  There wouldn't be a His 'N' Hers

  What if caffeine was an illegal drug?
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  Love

  by Celtic in

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  what can you write from the heart about love?

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  ...is saying your sorry.
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  Trinity

  by desib77 in

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  my husband's cousin just called to offer me a book on the trinity.

  my husband had told her that i didn't believe in the trinity.. i'm having a really hard time being open to the trinity.

  i have jehovah and jesus drilled in to my head as separate entities.

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  Arian?

  A definition for anyone who is interested: Arianism [a heresy]

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01707c.htm

  And a defintion of [the sin of] heresy

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07256b.htm

  Nuff sed.

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  The "What If" Game

  by copsec in

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  i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

  so i will start off with....... .

  what if animals could talk?

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  In Naples in a piazza drinking coffee and watching all the girls go by... ohh the days, the days madonna mia!

  If you could be someone else who would you be.
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  he only feels disgust when its caught on tape...

  by Country Girl in

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  i hate this.

  but god only knows what is going on with the folks caught in guantanemo bay.

  this is so disgusting, abusive, and traitorous.

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  Haven't we learnt anything from what the Nazis DID WRONG? What about the Bosnian ethnic cleansing? What about Iraq's ethnic cleansing? We can go through the 70's for more...

  Ohh my - so much history, so little learnt. Wish I could teach you about ethnic cleansing. Oh, let's try something....

  Paint a picture. Your town decides that your family's genetics are poison. They then decide that you must all be wiped out. Your blood line ends with your generation. How would you feel, react?

  Forget politics, just try to capture that scenario and let it overwhelm you. Your children, your brothers and sisters, nephews and neices, your parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and while they are at it they will take out your wifes family line too... they don't care how far it goes... they hate you... hate has no logic or understanding. When you have that fear rip through your mind transfer that to a race of people not just a couple dozen members living in a narrow minded, disfunctional community. Nice picture... we can relate that to the American Revolution. The only battle fought on american soil spilling american blood. That blood cleansed the country of many wrong-doings. Have you forgotten already? Did all those brave men and women die for no reason? So that racism can take a hold of it's people? FREEDOM and THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE!! I don't see anything there in the constitution that gives you the right to condemn anyone.

  Racism should be made unlawful with prison time attached to it. Ignorance is not accepted in a court of law as an argument.

  Racism is based on ignorance and stupidity.

  Think about what you are saying -- you are talking about innocent people who are on the wrong side of a line drawn by politics. Is that fare?

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  Trinity

  by desib77 in

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  my husband's cousin just called to offer me a book on the trinity.

  my husband had told her that i didn't believe in the trinity.. i'm having a really hard time being open to the trinity.

  i have jehovah and jesus drilled in to my head as separate entities.

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  The best person to answer your question is God himself. As Jesus to come into your heart and show you what He want's you to understand. Man's words are man's words. If we accept that the books were written with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and that we only need his Word to save us then that's how it should be approached. Sure, we can all show you how it makes sense both for and against the trintity but you have to choose for yourself. The term trinity is just a term. If you believe that the three are of the same personality then you have the trinity as it is without any more thought or logic.

  If you want a real world example of how one thing can exist as three things at the same time before your very eyes I can give you such an exampe. That being said, if we can produce such an event is it not then possible that the creator of the universe could be more than anything that he created?

  As for the bible timeline. I think it doesn't really matter when it was written. We all accept that it was God's will for it to be wriiten and it was with the help of the Holy Spirit that it was. Why else would it be a Holy book?

  I enjoy a good scrummage through history to learn more of the language, hisory and clues about times gone by but ultimately I put more in the faith behind the writings than anything else that can be said about the "when where who" arguments. The difference between what I think and what others argue is that it makes sense when you read the book as it was meant to be read - with God's help.

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  The "What If" Game

  by copsec in

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  i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

  so i will start off with....... .

  what if animals could talk?

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  then we wouldn't see your lovely picture

  what if all the batteries in the world just disappeared?
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  The "What If" Game

  by copsec in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

  so i will start off with....... .

  what if animals could talk?

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  Then Richard Cranium would be a fine name to have

  What if you also had eyes in the back of your head?
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  All these newbies !

  by kls in

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  how great to have all newbies, i feel the jws are loosing the battle and loosing their ahh, donations.

  it makes me so happy when i see all that have broken free or a least come to ask questions.

  welcome to all

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  Left_Field

  As newbie I still haven't found the best way to view the categories and messages. I went from looking in each folder and manually checking each section post date and time to now clicking on active posts.

  What are some of your forum surfing habits for getting the most out of the forum? Any advise?

  LF