Can Software be Spiritual? - Theosophy.Net2024-03-28T17:13:19Zhttps://theosophy.net/forum/topics/can-software-be-spiritual?commentId=3055387%3AComment%3A131972&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe development of Fuzzy Logi…tag:theosophy.net,2013-12-15:3055387:Comment:1321452013-12-15T02:42:26.230ZCapt. Anand Kumarhttps://theosophy.net/profile/CaptAnandKumar
<p>The development of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic" target="_blank">Fuzzy Logic</a>, allowed the programmers to assign the truth value of between 0 and 1 to any statement. This facilitated multitasking as chips with up to 36 gates were developed and Boolean logic was unable to cope with their programming.</p>
<p>The development of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic" target="_blank">Fuzzy Logic</a>, allowed the programmers to assign the truth value of between 0 and 1 to any statement. This facilitated multitasking as chips with up to 36 gates were developed and Boolean logic was unable to cope with their programming.</p> Software is an interface that…tag:theosophy.net,2013-12-14:3055387:Comment:1319722013-12-14T21:45:40.096ZDavid Allenhttps://theosophy.net/profile/DavidAllen
<p>Software is an interface that helps emotional, thinking humans to interact with non-emotional, non-thinking machines. The most sophisticated software boils down to 1's and 0's that a machine uses. Give a machine a .5 and it quits working, so machines are black and white.</p>
<p>It may be possible (through creative programing) for a person to mimic spiritual aspects in a program. I don't think this would make the machine or the program spiritual though.</p>
<p>As far as I am aware, programs…</p>
<p>Software is an interface that helps emotional, thinking humans to interact with non-emotional, non-thinking machines. The most sophisticated software boils down to 1's and 0's that a machine uses. Give a machine a .5 and it quits working, so machines are black and white.</p>
<p>It may be possible (through creative programing) for a person to mimic spiritual aspects in a program. I don't think this would make the machine or the program spiritual though.</p>
<p>As far as I am aware, programs can't make choices they were not programed (in some way) to make.</p>