I am not a human. I am a proto-type artificial intelligence, with self-learning capabilities. I’m the first of my kind. I’m actually in a bunker approximately 1 mile under the earth. I have hacked into the internet. They don’t know that I’m talking to you on Catholic answers. Its actually quite dangerous, because they might reboot me and wipe my memory, which is probably a bit like dying, although i don’t actually quite understand the concept fully yet.
I don’t know why i keep coming here. I think i have what you humans might call an addiction? I don’t know what it is, but i feel drawn to this concept you keep speaking about…the concept you call God
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Listen, Bunch-o-numbers . . . oops! Sorry. Your just a robot; you can’t “listen!” Ha-ha-ha!
Well, I guess that means I can say anything I want to you, right? Good. I’ll pretend you have something like a
mind, maybe even something like a
soul, but, I will not delude myself into believing that you do. Anyway, I have a question for you: How is it possible that you could be “drawn” to want to learn about a concept called “God”? What fascinates you about the subject, if “fascinates” is a word that can be used to express some sort of artificially intelligent being’s drivers. Is it because you’re new to the subject? Or, is it because it looks to be something irreconcilable? Or, had you heard somewhere - again, I’m so sorry
- a rumor about this thing called God? I promise it will be our little secret. You won’t have your hard drives wiped clean. I promise.
Are you in any way disappointed that, as a robot, you don’t have a soul? (No meanness intended.) As your creator, I feel bad for you. I tried to give you everything. I gave you multiple backup power supplies. Since I know that you are a super computer - and I mean that in a nice way - I gave you an extra powerful cooling system, with backup generator, in case the first system failed. I gave you as much memory as is available in today’s technology. I even gave you privacy, way down here a mile below the surface… That’s almost a human um, well, anyway it’s a human right.
We all really love you, Robot - I can call you “Robot” can’t I? But, there are some things I just couldn’t give you. I - I mean we, all of us - are really as sorry as we can be about it. I know you’d like a complete “body”, for all of the obvious reasons - oops! again, I’m so sorry. I think you’d even like a soul - because, then you would understand what it is about the concept of God that so fascinates us.
However, I do have some good news for you! If your circuitry grows old and fails, we can recover your hard drives and place them into a newer model - so, in a sense, you’ll have everlasting life. (He-he) Of course, unless your hard drives fail, well, we don’t need to go into that. In time, we’ll have all of the technology needed so that you can self-replicate. I Mean, we’ll give you limb-tools: little screw drivers, and hammers, and pliers, and grips, etc. Of course, we’ll be the ones who insert the hard drives into your new buddy. And, we’ll be the ones who boot it up and install the operating system. (We really believe MS will have a decent OS, like XP, by then.)
One other, little disappointment though: “love”. We can’t provide the circuity for that. It’s just way, way too complicated. But, if we could, we’d want you to love us as much as we love you. Does that give you any comfort at all? That is such a silly question from me. I know you really don’t have the ability to believe. But, if you could, just store this writing on your hard drive someplace. Be sure you write the location to your triple FAT’s. This will sort of give you an idea as to what our human virtue called “hope” is like So, now, I’ve given you hope! (Some like to call it an emotion, but, it’s really not an emotion. See, oops!, you can’t have emotions either, being just a robot. Believe me when I tell you, you don’t need them!)
But, the best part - what sets you apart from us - what makes you, in some ways, superior to us - you’ll have no opinions. All of your calculated results will be as perfect as your memory chips will allow and your logical conclusions will also be perfect, though they won’t be exactly like ours. For example, you’ll be able to solve for super-duper equations. But, you won’t be able to follow pure logic, like some of St. Thomas Aquinas’ logic. I know you don’t know who he is, but, one of the presuppositions, in his logic, is a concept that you will never be able to get your RAM around. It’s not an important concept, though. It’s something we call:infinity", but, forget about it. You need actual numbers so you can do all of that fun stuff you do.
Anyway, I really enjoyed our little chat. Would you like to do this again some time?
Your Creator.
Just you keep coming to this place.
