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God in ReligionIf there's a god, why is there evil?
222 Posts • 57328 Views Religion Forum |
A five year old will tell you what ever he's programmed to. Heck! A forty five year old will tell you what he's been programmed with too!
If some of a childs first images to be correctly... |
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Reality & Metaphysics'reality'
100 Posts • 22771 Views Philosophy Forum |
By frequency I mean how it travels, or perhaps the speed at which it travels . ? . (I'm no scientist but I know there is a difference between light from a fire and light from a bulb.)
Whether... |
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Free Will
60 Posts • 14983 Views Philosophy Forum |
and no matter what choice we make, we obey our own programming. were programmed by genetics and our environment from the day were born. so were faced with a situation and our brains can be torn in two... |
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Free Will
60 Posts • 14983 Views Philosophy Forum |
if thats how it was programmed. |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainOf Computers and Minds
6 Posts • 2383 Views Psychology Forum |
Perhaps judging is just comparing two different entities. You can't say that 1 is better than 1 because they are the same thing. But you can say that 2 is better than 1 because 2 is greater than... |
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Free Will
60 Posts • 14983 Views Philosophy Forum |
We have a choice, unlike computers, because we choose to keep trying, when a computer has not option but to do what it is programmed. |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
63 Posts • 18238 Views Philosophy Forum |
Lol.
Wittgenstein, heres an analytical answer for you:
Life is that part of time which occurs between the bringing into existance an entitiy which is capable of inner stimlus to direct its actio... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainOf Computers and Minds
6 Posts • 2383 Views Psychology Forum |
The computer is programmed to make a judgement based on certain data programmed into it's software.
The ability to choose one judgement in favour of others is more complex, but still a computer can... |
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Theory of the Man-Machine
12 Posts • 9465 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think that the main thing that differentiates Man (humans) from machines is logic, for example, anyone who has seen i Robot, the robot decides to save Will Smith from the cars at the bottom of the r... |
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The Hardest Question?
110 Posts • 42673 Views Philosophy Forum |
because that's the way it was programmed
and when you kick it YOU MAKE A CHOICE
hehe wiley'd like this one
(i just saw revolutions it was kinda wack) |
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Is There are real right and wrong?
61 Posts • 15457 Views Philosophy Forum |
Do you believe there is really such a thing as a universal right and wrong? Or is it all just a system that we all have been programmed to believe? |
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God in ReligionGod's Will
128 Posts • 29890 Views Religion Forum |
And god had to make a murderous program (and ultimately ineffective)?
He couldn't have just programmed our balls to stop being fertile once population reaches a certain point?
I don't... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismThe last leg for Atheism
185 Posts • 40083 Views Religion Forum |
Conway, I live my life because it is what I am programmed to do. I accept all things good and bad about life and go along with it fine. Sure I couldn blow my brains out. Or I could do whatever. Just b... |
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Relationships & Lovewould you?
4 Posts • 2176 Views Psychology Forum |
well it depends...if the robot was programed to actually feel sorrow and other emotions then maybe i would still love them but if it was programmed to just act like it felt sorrow and other emotions t... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismRichard Dawkins - Skip to 8:06
0 Posts • 344 Views Religion Forum |
I've been stupid so many times it's not funny so I can't call other people stupid. But, surely, people should learn from experience, however, the God delusion is almost impossible to sh... |
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Human Nature & EmotionArtificial Intelligence
15 Posts • 4579 Views Philosophy Forum |
AI would have no internal free will. humans have the capacity to jump from one thought to a completely different thought where as AI would only be able to make such jumps if they had already been prog... |
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Theory of the Man-Machine
12 Posts • 9465 Views Philosophy Forum |
A cow can feel, just like we do. But most here would probably say that cows are not conscience, more 'mechanical'.
I do not think feelings as in emotions make us different from machines (... |
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God in Religionwhich God do i follow?
31 Posts • 9905 Views Religion Forum |
Okay here it is if it feels right it is right its that simple as most things in life are we just overcomplicate things because we just have to understand. But we cant.
If YOU ARE RAISED TO RESPOND... |
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GodWhy human beings?
25 Posts • 7020 Views Philosophy Forum |
im getting this idea from another member of this forum, wizardslogic, but by the pattern of what we are made up of, many different micro organisms that are formed together to create man. It is natural... |
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LawStatutory Rape
14 Posts • 4533 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
In a book of Ann Rice's, called the witching hour, a man goes to a hotel room, i think it takes place in new Orleans in the 17th century, the man goes to a brothel to have sex with a women and he... |
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The Thinker
19 Posts • 6408 Views Philosophy Forum |
Well, it is a matter of opinon and debate wheather life is predetermined or not.
In a sense, our actions may be. I mean, deciding to pick up a coffee isn't special. The decision we make isn'... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
63 Posts • 18238 Views Philosophy Forum |
listen....i think that is scripted...because...to me (if you believe in god) god already knows our next move...so in all actuality, unless i miss the big picture of it all, we hav no true free willAct... |
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BiologyCloning
93 Posts • 25191 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Why is it that when everybody begins to develop some fabrications of intelligence they suddenly deny their God? Now, I don't know how many people believed in God to begin with but I would assume... |
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Life & Deathwhy is death so scary for ppl
48 Posts • 23566 Views Philosophy Forum |
death is the unkown, our minds are almost pre-programmed to fear the unknown, and it is after all the the worst outcome for our survival instincts. secondly, death is an activity that can only truely... |
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Is There are real right and wrong?
61 Posts • 15457 Views Philosophy Forum |
Exactly. We are no less "programmed" to beleive that killing is wrong. Everyone of us here had been taught from birth to beleive that killing is wrong, but no one can say exactly why it is. |
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