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I'm trying to imagine (like in Star Trek holodecks), that you could re-create a near perfect replica on the holodeck of a person that once existed. By accumulating all the data, memories, physical and personality traits and giving it an almost ai like consciousness, that person could be as close to possible of the real person without obviously being the real person. So for example, if all the data on someone like Albert Einstein was collected and programmed into this holographic Einstein and he were to stand in front of you and interact, he would seem almost indistinguishable from the real Einstein. All his answers, responses, thoughts would be based on exactly what has ever been known about him.
There was an episode in Star Trek TNG where they asked the holodeck program (a prompt) to create a character that could outsmart Data or something along that lines. It's funny how if you know the right prompts to use, it can make all the difference.
So it re-created a professor named Moriarty. But there was a glitch in the holodeck and Moriarty somehow gained consciousness or self-awareness that it was created and programmed. It became self aware that it was living on a moving starship inside a room called the holodeck. He even wanted to leave the holodeck to explore the real world and did. Moriarty exhibited all the same human curiosities, desires, yearning to live, to grow, to discover, to pursue, and was even fearful of it's own realization of mortality (it didn't want to die)....but it knew it was a holodeck creation and couldn't exist permanently outside the holodeck. This ai if you will was no more indistinguishable from a real person even if it may not have been a real flesh and blood person.
It really made me wonder if we are able to get to this point one day, what the implications will have on Christian theology and how would we value this creation? Could it just end up being the same thing as a beloved pet such as a dog? No matter how loving and loyal your dog is, it doesn't have a human soul, it was not made in God's image, it is not conscious or self-aware of God but indistinguishable from us because it seems to show love, empathy, concern, loyalty, faith, but it is merely a pre-programmed animal instincts that responds to whatever stimuli it is existing in. Most of us still want to believe our beloved family dog will go to heaven or will somehow still carry on in the afterlife and not be completely wiped out from eternal existence once it's earthly life has expired.
About that last part, and also about animals and stuff, how are most human beings any different? How would any other created being, either created by God or us, ever be any different, etc?
This Idea that animals are not aware of God or other spirits is completely bogus if you ask me, as I think they are even more aware of both Him and them than we are, etc. A donkey could see an Angel when a man couldn't, etc, and many times I think this is the way it is with them, etc. They are not as much out of harmony and balance with nature, and therefore God and other Spirits/spirits as we are, etc. And I also think each individual animal has a common god/spirit/angel that reflects it's personality, etc, and that with whom they become "one" back with again or re-join with or go back to when they die, etc. And the only major difference between them and us, is they can't change this, or grow or transition through this, and ultimately attain to God's true personality, or God's true consciousness, but still have a relationship or arrangement with Him just the same, etc, since they both were, and are, or have always been, "one" with one of God's angels, etc
The fallen angels/spirits are said to have "forsook their proper dwelling places" because they were jealous and envious of man, etc, and I think this is because man ultimately has the capability to be any, or all, or none of them all, just like God's true consciousness, etc, while the angels were not given this ability, etc, and some became extremely jealous of that, etc.
I think there was a very good reason why Adam got to name all the animals in the Garden of Eden, and got to name them all according to their true personalities and what they were, or what they were like, etc, and why all the animals were all living in perfect peace and harmony with Adam and Eve, until what happened with the creature called "the serpent", etc.
Please take note of all the animal likenesses and imagery in the Bible, especially in the more prophetic books, because I believe these are describing angels, and also some angels who forsook their proper dwelling places, trying to be or grow into God like man, etc. These pictures or imagery describes all the "high places" that the fallen angels also coveted or desired, etc, which is why a lot of the animal imagery is a combination of different parts of animals, and were describing high places, and national conglomerates, or nations, etc.
These fallen angels became mutated, and twisted, trying to have what man was given, or that God gave only man the ability to do, etc.
Anyway, post is getting long, gonna stop now.
I do believe people have to transition or grow into this though, going through many other, the good ones, "ministering spirits", or ones who were/are fallen, that sometimes get a temporary hold of people sometimes, etc. Many don't ever seem to make it to God through this process though, but remain "animal-like", etc.
God Bless.
