A philosophical conversation

[ribozyme]

What do you think about the veracity of Morpheus’ statements?

MORPHEUS: JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No –

JC DENTON: How do you know who I am?

MORPHEUS: I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. I am a
prototype for a much larger system.

JC DENTON: What else do you know about me?

MORPHEUS: Everything that can be known.

JC DENTON: Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors?

MORPHEUS: You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather
than of individuals.

JC DENTON: I’m engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up.

MORPHEUS: You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer.

JC DENTON: Are you programmed to invent riddles?

MORPHEUS: I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed
by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge.

JC DENTON: How about a report on yourself?

MORPHEUS: I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with
information about themselves.

JC DENTON: I don’t see anything amusing about spying on people.

MORPHEUS: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.

JC DENTON: Some people just don’t understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.

MORPHEUS: The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

JC DENTON: Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.

MORPHEUS: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.

JC DENTON: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.

MORPHEUS: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

JC DENTON: You underestimate humankind’s love of freedom.

MORPHEUS: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups
is impossible, and so is civilization.

MORPHEUS: The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning.

MORPHEUS: God was a dream of good government.

MORPHEUS: You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.

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[freesoulhope]

What do you think about the veracity of Morpheus’ statements?

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I have played this game.

 

[freesoulhope]

What do you think about the veracity of Morpheus’ statements?

Here’s the convo on youtube:
youtube.com/watch?v=inODOOYjAbI

All of those statements are based in a world which the game maker created; therefore there is a creator. Regardless of whether or not the words themselves sound nice and logical, they do not provide us with anything but correlating opinions which are only necessary if in fact God does not exist. The computor cannot know that God does not exist, unless it is God itself; which in fact would prove that some kind of God exists (contradiction). If the computor is not God, then everything it is saying, is an opinion that it has either devised by itself, or somebody has programed those things into its memory. Everything thing it is saying, is only being said because the machine or its maker has an agenda and wants a desired affect. It does not know anything other then what it can possibly know, and cannot know anything more then its surrounding reality will allow.

It would seem that the explanations that are provided for mans belief in God do not really explain why people would believe in the Christian God, and even if those desires can be explained by other desires, this doesn’t explain the foundational desires and neither does it explain whether or not it is legitimate to believe in God. People believe in all sorts of things for selfish reasons, that doesn’t mean that the beliefs themseleves are un-true, it just shows that man needs to believe in something in order to get the “best” out of life and to feel “secure”. Though one can say reasonably that these desire can give rise to man creating false Gods for there own self gorification and survival, Such desires can also be said to be pre-requirements for a “belief in a true God” that God himself has installed within in us; and that mans true problem in life is that he attempts to feed these desires for God with false Gods.

 

[freesoulhope]

yow!