Interesting conundrum for Christians: When 2 people conceive a child, at what point do they imbue it with a spirit of life? It’s important because if a research team ever develops true AI advanced enough to qualify as genuine life, who gave it that life? Would it have a spirit?
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But this also appears to confirm, if a true machine intelligence did ever arise and could be definitely proven to be real life, it would be considered a human. Both of these reasons, Frankenstein and blurred humanity, must be why the Catholic Church warns so sternly against it.
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Yeah. Creating life ex nihilo--or near enough to it--isn't a power proper to human nature. We've been given a perfectly good means of participating in the propagation of human life. Why anyone would prefer another way is beyond me.

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Pretty much. I'm not ruling out God being able to infuse a machine with a rational soul in His omnipotence, but metaphysically it wouldn't be an A.I. It'd be human. Needless to say, it would also be an extraordinary way of creating life outside the ordinary means of procreation!
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Right, I also don’t believe it will ever happen. But if it ever truly did, what a glorious manifestation of the boundless power of God!
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But I create life in my own image whenever I reproduce. And this is according to God's will and command, "be fruitful and multiply." If my offspring were not in my image, there would be no need to baptise it. If that quest is not doomed to failure, why the other?
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Our offspring are not made in our image.
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I also doubt it will ever come about, because at that point it would be a genuine life, which would require the will of God since none but Him can fashion a living spirit.
