John Clark wrote:
>
> Adrian `Guru Zeb` Harper <guruzeb@blueyonder.co.uk> Wrote:
>
> >How could we guarantee that such an AI would not become infected with the
> >same religious viral memes that afflict so many humans.
>
> Religious memes are powerful in human beings because humans are mortal.
> Eliminate death and you eliminate religion.
I don't think so. There are plenty of ludicrous things people will
believe that have nothing to do with mortality. I think that it is an
inherent characteristic of sufficiently complex minds that different
parts of the same mind may believe in two (or more) contradictory things
at once.
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