It's not so much that as the issue being framed in Cartesian/pseudo-animist terms. Aristo-Thomism doesn't conceive of the soul that way.
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Replying to @BrianNiemeier @TheBrometheus
Super short version--there's 3 kinds of rational beings: >God: unlimited pure spirit >Angels: limited pure spirits >Humans: limited body/soul composites.
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Replying to @BrianNiemeier @TheBrometheus
Reason is a power proper to a soul made in God's image. It's a spiritual faculty that no amount of processing power or complexity can conjure from base matter.
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Replying to @BrianNiemeier @TheBrometheus
If a machine really were rational, it would a) have been granted a rational soul by God, and therefore, as a matter-soul composite, be ontologically human.
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Replying to @BrianNiemeier
Fascinating.
So in this view, the quest to create a true machine intelligence is identical to the quest to create Frankenstein’s monster in that both are inevitably doomed to failure because it’s man’s attempt to create life in his own image, not God creating man in His image.3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @TheBrometheus @BrianNiemeier
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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Replying to @logosimian @BrianNiemeier
Our offspring are not made in our image.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @logosimian
You're each using different senses of the word "image'.
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