VISFILES Super-Intelligent Machines gill Hibbard University of Wisconsin - Madison match, what will that mean for us? In order to try to answer this question, I'm going to consider some ideas about religion and biology. Religion fills in the gaps that our knowledge does not cover. Ancient religions were large because human knowledge was small. Modern religious belief is motivated by the questions that science still does not answer. For example, the mere fact that the universe exists at all seems so improbable (I could freak myself out as a kid thinking about it). It is hard to imagine how life evolved from inanimate molecules. As Fred Brooks said during his Turing Award Lecture at SIGGI~PH 2000 (what a year for inspiring speeches), when you see a great design look for a great designer. Some people have trouble accepting that their physical brains can explain their subjective experience of consciousness, so they believe their consciousness resides in a soul outside the physical world. But many people reject religion and put their faith in science, based on its seemingly inevitable progress filling all the gaps in knowledge. However, a critical event in the progress of science is imminent. This
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Super-intelligent machines
Hibbard, Bill
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Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 2001
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