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The Human brain is a computer that assists the Spirit. The structure itself is sufficient to operate a dynamic, flexible slave.

Dirty Materialists Get Out.

edit: Godless materialists currently consider certain "quantum shenanigans" to be "completely random", while the evidence merely indicates that they are predictably distributed, like everything else.

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It does not make any practical difference, if there is true randomness, or just something sufficiently complicated to be effectively random. In practice, it is appropriate to act like you have free will, because if you think you do not _and_ change your behaviour accordingly, then, of course, you rob yourself of the possibility to positively affect your life and that of others _on that level of abstraction_. It does not matter, if there is any determinism some layers further down (and, btw, there probably isn't), that actually _looks_ completely random.

I know this sounds complicated, but the idea is actually pretty simple.

-1 not for the opinion, but the derogatory remark.

However would you say that, if an actual human level intelect is created artificially, and can be shown to operate purely on the physical principles used in it's design, that your religious views will be proved to be incorrect? If so, that's a bold and courageous position to take.

anything that can be strictly defined can be simulated

but nothing can change the fact that the _first_ chicken always came from an egg

Sure, and the first egg layer was not a chicken.

PS: I never got the paradox on that one.

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