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Artificial intellegence is tricky, to try and make it relevant. As I've said, I don't believe in God or anything, but when I was younger I did, due to my family. No matter how I try, I can't make it so artificial beings would have souls. I can imagine dogs, monkeys, dolphins, lizards, maybe even insects having souls, being complex and biological... but an android? It just doesn't seem right to have a soul.
That's probably just a result of my limited way of seeing things, as there is no reason why a system of evolution cannot encompass mechanical as well as biological evolution. Maybe it's because I don't think my desktop computer is ever going to become Data from ST:TNG. If it did, in my lifetime, could I treat it as I treat a human being, knowing that, in my youth, computers could barely run SimCity without crashing? I doubt it. Maybe if androids were created by taking dying humans and "downloading" the entire contents of their brain inside the mechanical body. I haven't quite figured out the mind/body dichotomy and exactly what a soul is or how it works, yet. It's the most difficult problem I've yet encountered, and might take several more years to work to a solution.
But God doesn't care. If he's replaced by humans, martians, lizard men, androids, Cthlhu, as long as he dies, that's great! :D
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