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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Replying to @TheBrometheus
1. At the moment of conception. 2. There's never gonna be true A.I.
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Replying to @BrianNiemeier @TheBrometheus
Working from my Thomistic background, Brian is right: Rationality is a quality of the soul, which is the form of the body, which is infused by God when the matter becomes an body of the sort that possesses a rational soul.
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Aquinas, working from the 'settled science' of his day, thought this took place sometime after conception, but our science is strongly pointing (if not all-out confirming) that it's at conception, which actually solves a couple theological difficulties for him.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @mlmartin97
He's not :)pic.twitter.com/aAlYpVBIPn
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Curses. A joke foiled again by good theology. 
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