<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Dirk Bruere wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 11/26/05, <B class="gmail_sendername">gts</B> <<A href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com">gts_2000@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Religion/God/Mysticism/Cartesian-Dualism is one answer to the question of<BR>qualia, but one that most extropians and transhumanists would probably<BR>prefer to reject. The need for divine intervention would make the<BR>extropian dream of strong AI enormously more difficult and intimidating. <BR>How would we persuade or force God to inject souls into our machines?<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>If God exists (a possible God and no, I don't believe it), then GOD is as SAI. Dualism as such does not require GOD to create "souls". OK. This topic is for sure off into the weeds.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>