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[Hide] (469.7KB, 1920x1080) It gets spicier. Calm down and wait until Geppetto crashes out.
> However, the Millerites had more reason to believe in their Messiah than do the Transhumanists. At least Jesus Christ was an actual historical figure. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is a chimera birthed by problematic figures of speech, disanalogies, and metaphors. This is worse than superstition. At the end of the day, the Transhumanist is nothing more than a lonely Geppetto waiting for his Pinocchio to become a real boy. The puppet will never divest itself of its strings and the delusional puppeteer will never achieve immortality through his wooden progeny. Eloquently summarizing the problem, Hart states:
> All computation is ontologically dependent on consciousness, simply said, and so computation cannot provide the foundation
upon which consciousness rests. One might just as well attempt to explain the existence of the sun as the result of the warmth and brightness of summer days. (The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss 223)
t. Collins, Paul D.; Collins, Phillip D.. Invoking the Beyond:: The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man (English Edition) (S.372). iUniverse. Kindle-Version. Sadly the physical version is pretty shit.