Comment author: ewang 09 January 2011 11:53:22PM 1 point [-]

Even if scanning leads to a working simulation of a brain, there will have to be several more years before sufficiently powerful hardware is available that could run it at "brainspeed".

Comment author: genix 08 August 2011 09:58:38PM 1 point [-]

But I'd really like to see the simulation then. That could answer the "soul" question forever :)

Comment author: Anna2 04 August 2007 09:05:09AM -18 points [-]

Eliezer: "did religionists execute what William Bartley called the retreat to commitment, "I believe because I believe."

Yes, they believe because they believe. Have you taken the time to ask why? Oh, my apology, I wasn't aware I wasn't knowledgeable enough to post.

Anna

Comment author: genix 07 August 2011 08:58:40PM 7 points [-]

You seem so.

The claim "I believe because I believe" is the same as if I would state "5 + 5 = 20 because it is". If you make a claim like that you have to give a reason, and prove it, and that's exactly what these people didn't do.

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