Will robots have immortal souls? Daniel Dennett vs Keith Ward

High profile atheist philosopher Daniel C Dennett goes head to head with Christian theologian Keith Ward in this extract from their debate on mind, consciousness and freewill.

In this excerpt Dennett and Ward debate whether robots could be programmed with immortal ‘souls’.

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[GeoCoppens]

"Will robots have immortal souls"???? Bullshit!!!

[nicholas]

Only a soul can be an immortal soul. Any form of digitalization of a human is a merging with death. Sin is similarly dead and "robotic", but digitization lacks the potential to be raised from the dead. Any bio-psycho integration with digitality is a drastically dangerous mistake which, even at a fairly minimal level, will result in mental death. When the soul is dysfunctional to the point of incompatibility with the body, the body will become an animate thing with no witness within; and this will happen far sooner than when it will be externally detectable. It will be internally detectable to a non-observing mind that it is non-observant; but artificial observance may blind the mind to it's own deadness.

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[johnhammond]

Having just listened to the whole debate I have to say Daniel Dennett came out as more convincing.

[charliechrist]

Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven according to John 14:6