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Hi! I'm an #atheist #humanist and #skeptic looking to respectfully engage online here with people I disagree with. And maybe people who agree with me too!

I don't believe in #god , and in fact I'm pretty sure no such thing exists, but I'm willing to consider the alternatives and change my mind.

Are you a #christian who believes in #jesus , or any other #religion , and want to explore whether or not you have good reasons to think that it's true? I'm happy to have that conversation!

I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong. Are you?

@lack I also think hard-atheist materialism, taken by itself without anti-Christian miso-theism, is a poorly thought out position. Either you accept the possibility of reincarnation or an afterlife of some sort, that just means you are re-inventing paganism… or, you deny the possibility of an afterlife or a soul, which is a difficult position to prove. Face it: consciousness is a hard problem, every AI developer or a sci-fi author knows that!

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@b_chocolatey To be honest, the more I learn about AI, the more skeptical I become of the notion that what we call consciousness needed an intelligent creator at all.

I don't claim to have the answers, I simply don't accept them without verifiable evidence.

If there is in fact a creator, I see no reason to believe something as insignificant as me in something as vast as the universe would even be a blip on its radar.
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@me not to get all no-true-Scotsman, but I think that actual AI experts know that human consciousness can’t be produced by AI - or else they would have done it already, or established a product delivery date on the Kanban jira board.

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