On Dec 4, 12:26�am, "Mark Earnest"
yahoo.com> wrote:>> Animism is about putting autonomous agencies, or spirits and
>> archetypes, into inanimate objects such as dolls, masks, costumes,
>> pieces of wood, metal, etc. It is a long tradition that humanity still
>> exercises today.
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>> Thus we find that Logics, maths and the computer sciences also carry
>> on the noble tradition of animism. Like the old animists, their
>> practitioners believe that if the right incantations, or sequences of
>> signs, can be implanted in the receiving material form, intelligence
>> and autonomy will arise, only this time of a more rational sort
>> (called 'Artificial Intelligence') than that found in the voodoo doll.
>> However, the resulting 'robot' must be able to receive commands, much
>> like the voodoo doll, or otherwise it could threaten the peace.
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>> Richard Dawkins and the evolutionists generally are also animists, but
>> their stance is marginally closer to robotics than to voodoo. Here, in
>> the best animist tradition, we find that evolutionary scripture
>> demands the belief of mind over matter. Here their practitioners
>> believe that consciousness was placed in the physical brain by
>> evolutionary incantations or processes in order to help carry out its
>> commands, in much the same way as a spirit is placed in the voodoo
>> doll.
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>> While there are differences and arguments between these schools of
>> animism, it is good to see that voodoo, robotics, and evolutionary
>> scripture are still keeping up good old animist traditions.
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> I help my community by being nice to my pet betta.
> Is that animism?- Hide quoted text -
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No, it is not animism. Betta has its own mind and would like you to
mind the difference.
