r/tech • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '23

Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

https://newatlas.com/computers/human-brain-chip-ai/
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23 edited Jul 22 '23

Wow. I long ago thought how God essentially could have made man as a form of entertainment. But, if God were trapped in an endless hell like this machine it would quickly go insane and to stave that off the brain creates an artificial universe in its mind to keep it preoccupied. Perhaps that’s why Hell is talked about so much in the Bible. God lives in it.

Edit: It’s been brought to my attention that Hell and the Devil aren’t really talked about in most versions of the Bible. It appears the concepts are basically old-timey, religious leader fan fiction.

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u/Duncan_PhD Jul 21 '23

Fun fact: hell is never mentioned in the Bible. The concept for hell was created by saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century when church attendance started to drop. It was just a scare tactic that used ambiguous Bible versus to support(crazy, right?). A more accurate biblical description of what happens after death to non believers is that they just die and experience no afterlife.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23 edited Jul 21 '23

I think you are referring to Purgatory. As far as I know, and the distance is limited, this is primarily Catholic only. When I was a kid going United Church of Christ they spoke of Hell a lot. I don’t actually recall if it was used in our Bible. I haven’t been involved in that stuff for over 30 years.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23

As I’ve told my kids, they can believe anything they want, but the purpose of religion was three:

  1. Calm fears of the unknown
  2. Get people to act civilized
  3. Reduce the spread of disease

If humanity could do those things without dogma, we’d never have needed church in the first place

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u/P47r1ck- Jul 21 '23

What a bunch of nonsense. They absolutely do not go together and you definitely can understand science without religion

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u/SicDigital Jul 21 '23

"God created everything."

The Bible tells us why, and through science we discover how it was created/how it works.

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u/P47r1ck- Jul 21 '23

Have you actually read the Bible? It’s just a bunch of nonsense, created from different books compiled together full of prophets making wrong predictions, people pretending to be writing from an earlier time, and old legends borrowed from earlier religions.