I find the Lilly diagram VERY VERY useful, many thanks, it clearly maps out possible differences in giving value to such experiences ... However, I'm agnostic on them, because whatever their ontological status, they are 'real' experiences and have 'real' meaning. So for the the correct consequence is: 1) acknowledging the experience (eye of spirit); 2) discussing their meaning intersubjectively (eye of mind); 3) assessing their ontological status (eye of matter, the 3 mind theory of Lilly). I would love to read Luminarium, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/luminarium-by-alex-shakar-boo..., which directly investigates those issues ... ha John Lilly (big bouts of nostalgia) ... yes, Richard that really shows (y)our age <g> for the young amongst us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly ... can't remember who that was, but I once hadd long conversations with a man who had been Lilly's librarian for years ... Michel On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Poor Richard <[email protected]>wrote:
Another tangent of this spirituality in the internet topic is spiritual machines. *The Age of Spiritual Machines*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines>is a book by futurist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurology> Ray Kurzweil.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil>
My thoughts on the subject are on a different track from Kurzweil, but he may be the inventor of the general concept. My interest is focused as bit differently from his. I imagine a "spiritual Turing Test<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Test>" in which the object is to detect whether the test taker is a human or a machine, but in which all the questions relate only to the subject of spirituality. I predict a machine will pass this test, judged by a panel of religious and political celebrities, in the year 2030.
PR
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