Is God an Alien Mathematician?

h+ ^ | Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

BEN GOERTZEL: Hugo, you've recently published an article on KurzweilAI.net titled "From Cosmism to Deism”, which essentially posits a transhumanist argument that some sort of “God” exists, i.e. some sort of intelligent creator of our universe – and furthermore that this “creator” is probably some sort of mathematician. I'm curious to ask you some questions digging a little deeper into your thinking on these (fun, albeit rather far-out) issues.

Could you start out by clarifying what you mean by the two terms in the title of your article, cosmism and deism? (I know what I mean by Cosmism, and I described it in my Cosmist Manifesto book, but I wonder if you have a slightly different meaning.)

HUGO DE GARIS: I defined these two terms rather succinctly in the kurzweilai.net essay, so I’ll just quote those definitions here. Deism is “the belief that there is a ‘deity’ i.e. a creator of the universe, a grand designer, a cosmic architect, that conceived and built our universe.” Cosmism is the “ideology in favor of humanity building artilects this century (despite the risk that advanced artilects may decide to wipe out humanity as a pest).” Artilects are “artificial intellects, i.e. godlike massively intelligent machines, with intellectual capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level.” Deism is to be distinguished from theism, which is the belief in a deity that also cares about the welfare of individual humans.

[kbennkc]

Math. It figures, cause the college of social sciences here is pretty lame.

[Lakeshark]

*Alien pick up line alert*

[null and void]

*Alien pick up line alert*

You shoulda pinged Darks to that...

[Miss_Meyet]

*Alien pick up line alert*

How about shouting, "Nice asteroids!" over the really loud music?

[Lakeshark]

Or maybe the resident alien, aka the AZ rattler (hatching as shown below):

[P8riot]

Another lame attempt to understand God on human terms.

[kbennkc]

Another lame attempt to understand God on human terms.

If only we could have a sign, cosign, tangent, cotangent, cosecant anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0cvqT1tAE

[Borax Queen]

HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Tanniker Smith]

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Math and Religion

Seriously, how could any mathematician not believe in "higher powers"?



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[Ellendra]

Is God an Alien Mathematician?

Did anybody think he was a human one?

[Darksheare]

Alien pickup lines?

*Beamed up by mistake, be back later*

[paulycy]

*Alien pick up line alert*

"You sure are one prime factor..."

[mjp]

Artilects are “artificial intellects, i.e. godlike massively intelligent machines, with intellectual capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level.”

and we are all brains in vats