Humans are minimally capable gods (written by an atheist computer scientist)

NOTE I: No opinion, faith, belief nor emotion was utilized in the creation of the following passage. [merely science is utilized]

NOTE II: I am atheistic, so I tend to avoid things such as belief/faith etc, especially as the inventor of a phenomenon called 'non-beliefism' (See profile)


Quote By Sam Harris (an atheist neuroscientist): "We have to admit that we are building some sort of God..."
[In youtube video "Can we build AI without losing control over it?", minute 14:11]




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A.I: SCIENTIFIC-REDEFINITION OF GOD

God is any probably non omniscient entity with the ability to engineer non-trivial intelligence (perhaps artificial), that shall probably exceed that of the the intellect of its creators.

See Mathematics in 'Scientific evidence of God by an atheist'.








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A.II: WHY A?

In the above, I reduce the typical claimed theistic God definition, amidst empirical scientific sequences:



{Supposed_Properties_TypicalTheisticGods | omniscience, omnipotence, omni…., ability_to_engineer_non-trivial_intelligence}

{Properties_Mankind | gaining_the_ability_to_engineer_non-trivial_artificial_intelligence}

There is a potential overlap above, whence omniscience, omnipotence, omni… is NOT SCIENTIFICALLY founded.










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B: YOU ARE A 'MINIMALLY-CAPABLE' GOD, BUT NOT THE THEISTIC-OMNISCIENT TYPE

In a similar way that the hypothetical super artificial intelligence (mentioned in section "C" below) engineers itself (and probably how today’s artificial neural networks update themselves), …we constantly self-engineer our brains, such that enhanced versions of ourselves are probable.

This satisfies definition A.

See Mathematics in 'Scientific evidence of God by an atheist'.









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C: YOU CAN BECOME A 'HIGHLY-CAPABLE' GOD, HOWEVER STILL PROBABLY NOT THE RELIGIOUS-OMNISCIENT TYPE


So, mankind is gaining more and more, a specific ability, that several theistic gods are claimed to possess. (source)

That is, the ability to generate at least human-level, artificial, non-trivial intelligence.

This is probable, given that we don't erase ourselves with war etc, or encounter some other catastrophe.












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D: HOW TO BECOME A 'HIGHLY-CAPABLE' GOD

There are roughly 3 steps for how to become a highly-capable god, on the horizon of the scientific definition above.

See Mathematics in 'How to become a ‘highly capable’ God in 3 simple steps (absent faith/belief):'.

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