[MD] God as Internet Activity

[khaled Alkotob]

At last we are discussing philosophy.

khaled

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:13:11 -0400 (EDT) "Arlo J. Bensinger"
<ajb102 at psu.edu> writes:
> (For those who came in late, this began when i suggested that an 
> emergent layer
> arising out of collective activity on the intellectual level may be 
> along the
> lines of what Dogbert suggests in a Dilbert strip, namely that 
> simple things
> combine to create complex things, so a supreme being must be our 
> future, not
> our origin, then Dogbert speculates, "What if 'God' is the 
> conciousness that
> results when enough of us are connected by the Internet?" it's just 
> fun stuff,
> but i thought it deserved its own subject heading...)
> 
> [DM]
> maybe, do you think the internet god is fed on inexhaustible porn 
> and blogging?
> 
> [Arlo]
> i forget the comedian who said, "someday we'll be sitting in front 
> of our
> holographic, 3D, pure-res virtual computing machine, and we'll look 
> over at our
> dusty, old desktop in the corner and we'll think... i used to 
> masturbate the
> THAT?!"
> 
> another dilbert reference... scott adams wrote about why life will 
> never imitate
> star trek. among the many devices he mentions, it is the holodeck 
> which gets
> the main nod. we'll never have a holodeck, he speculates, because 
> "man" invents
> one, the species will immediately die off. Why go through the 
> trouble of
> arranging and handling a "date", when you can simply power up the 
> Apple
> iFantasy Holographic Suite, and spend your nights with four Cindy 
> Crawford
> clones?
> 
> (Arlo is aware the above paragraph constitutes an example of 
> heteronormalizing,
> misogynistic dialogue)
> 
> One wonders, as you suggest, that if the true use of the Internet 
> revolves
> around lust and egocentric authorship, if the "God" we create will 
> be some sort
> of Dionysius-Narcissus hybrid. This could make for interesting 
> Sunday School
> stories...
> 
> Arlo
> 
> PS: Speaking of this holodeck stuff, I have to say, one of the 
> FUNNIEST moments
> in cinema (for me) was in The Sleeper. Woody Allen (from the past), 
> while
> trying to evade the police, unknowingly hides inside what turns out 
> to be  a
> common device in the future, the Orgasmatron. The police linger, 
> while the box
> bounces and blinks. When they finally leave, the door opens and 
> seeing Woody
> walk out is cinema classic.
> 
> Now, do I have to mention the Barbarella scene where she is inside 
> an orgasm
> inducing piano? (another apparently common device in future worlds)
> 
> 
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