[extropy-chat] qualia

[gts]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:40:24 -0500, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/11/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Religion/God/Mysticism/Cartesian-Dualism is one answer to the question  
>> of qualia, but one that most extropians and transhumanists would  
>> probably
>> prefer to reject. The need for divine intervention would make the
>> extropian dream of strong AI enormously more difficult and intimidating.
>> How would we persuade or force God to inject souls into our machines?
>>
>
> Oh I don't know. God, if she's out there, has been so careful to be
> consistent across the universe, that she's hardly likely to let
> something as bleedingly obvious as qualia catch her out.

True under pantheism, the doctrine that God is immanent in the world as  
well as transcendent to it. I'm not here to preach, but if I were then it  
would be about pantheism.

The most famous pantheist was probably Spinoza, and if I remember  
correctly he was kicked out of his church or temple and labeled an atheist.

-gts