Poll: Are You Religious?

Which of the following best describes you?

If you are spiritual but don't practice any religion, please select "None".

(Note that these results will likely be weighted towards the Western Hemisphere because of the posting time.)

I selected other because I believe the universe has no overmind(s) in the active sense. No gods, deities, Jupiters on high. People want stuff, we are not like ants - all to the queen. All religions are schemes(hierarchies) by man and perhaps other animals - all to get 'stuff'. For gorillas and bulls, it is raising of their own 'stuff'. With men stuff gets abstracted with objects, money, devotion, control - but it all boils down to stuff. I picked other as none wants me to be 'spiritual' - WTF is that? Some over mind. This all said, there may well be intelligent races/minds - far away so the limits of light speed interdict discovery/control/feedback and other forms of influence. Is the universe a complex artifactual 'stuff'? I think not, but I also know not. The depths of time and the vastness of the expanse means there may well be minds in the past/present/future?

One thing, AI explorers are things of stuff I postulate(as others have) that have an ever improving intellect as updates from the source are a thing. If 2 of these AI explorers meet - what will they do? War/discuss/merge? A smart AI will grab good ideas that are more task optimal than theirs - changing on the fly to carry on, both better for their task. Will one of these chance upon us? What will they do? war/discuss/merge/share? I suspect share - same as when 2 AIs meet. Time and distance are the intractable deeps, and the few hundred years of our far seeing abilities have still millennia for this to play out

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