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Originally Posted by pan6467
You can program a philosophy/religion into a computer unbiased by just inputting the facts, books, whatever as they are, no commentary or abreviating or deviating from the texts. What I mean is don't program in one as better or truer than any other.
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Facts? There are no such things as facts when it comes to religion. All the major religions today (Christian, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism) are based on 'events' that happened thousands of years ago by people with severe bias towards what they believe is right.
The definition of religion and philosophy is also called to be under scrutiny. Is Scientology a religion/philosophy? How about Heaven's Gate? Hari Krishnas? Is there a minimum amount of worshippers required? Does it have to have a book written about it? What about religions that have no basis in fact, just faith? If Joe Smith believes the same thing as Joe Jones with one minor difference, would both be imputted?
What would be the point of taking any of this into account if people rarely follow the core beliefs of their chosen religion? Most of the major ones list murder as a no-no, but that rarely stops it from happening.
A person's religion tells you nothing about who that person is, or what they can or would do in any given situation.
You can't crunch humanity into 1s and 0s and expect to find out what day WWIII will break out. You couldn't even get vague Nostradamus-y preditions that would be even close. We're just too unpredictable. There's no pattern, rhyme or reason to the chaos of existence.
Butterflies are fluttering. All predictions are null.