"René Descartes; namely, that intelligence is a thing and that
we are 
essentially minds (or brains in jars, as a philosophical
experiment would have it).
The “soul” in this equation is just some
mysterious ether that hovers around us and is either placed there by God
or is part of a package deal with intelligence. If we can replicate
intelligence in some other matter, we can produce another mind.
For thinkers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, the soul is the form
of the person as a complete entity. The parts of a human being only make
sense when they are operating in relation to the whole, and this
includes body and will along with intellect.
In an era when we are being dehumanized at an alarming rate through
abortion, euthanasia, and pornography as well as
consumerism, it is to the robot that we look to affirm our humanity,
our mystery, our immateriality, our souls."
MichaelPlato/InAll
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