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Was thinking about this in terms of AI. As we create it we are probably going to put fail safes on it. So it would be reasonable then to assume if we were created the same thing would be programmed in us.

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[-] Gregorech@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

But we can that's what DNA is and we are learning how to rewrite it.

[-] ghostfrog@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That's true, I wonder where consciousnesses falls into that?

[-] Gregorech@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

C.S. Lewis once said you are a soul, you have a body.

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

now we need to protest against god to open source humans or make a libre alternative

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nah, they'd allow self modifying code to see what we do with it.

[-] kaktus@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

But we might be able to reverse engineer it. Isn't that what we are doing, kinda?

[-] ghostfrog@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If only they left an instruction manual

[-] Thoth19@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And you think they did it correctly? Every large SW project has bugs. I assume this one would as well.

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