Christians used to argue that babies conceived via IVF were not human and did not have souls.
When the Pope said they were wrong, the children WERE fully human, a lot of people felt this was some kind of tech delusion.
Either:
- the human soul is actually just physics or
- God creates and infuses a human soul.
If the former, then we can build an AI that has a living soul. Not necessarily a person, but certainly alive.
If the something is alive because God creates and infuses a soul, then either God creates and infuses living souls into only carbon-based life forms (grass, trees, rabbits, people) or He infuses it into anything He wants.
Notice, human persons are persons because their souls are spirits (immortal). Everything else, according to Christian doctrine, has a living soul, but is not a person because those souls are not spirits.
If God is the one behind all this, then we don't know to what extent men can participate in creation.
We DO know that when you fully simulate a fruit fly's brain, with all neuronal connections in a simulation, the simulated fly ACTS like a fruit fly without any training at all. That is, we CAN create an artificial life at least as complex as a fruit fly. It has already been done. Artificial bacteria with fully artificial DNA have also been created.
So... that's food for thought.
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