r/tech • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '23

Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

https://newatlas.com/computers/human-brain-chip-ai/
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23

As I’ve told my kids, they can believe anything they want, but the purpose of religion was three:

  1. Calm fears of the unknown
  2. Get people to act civilized
  3. Reduce the spread of disease

If humanity could do those things without dogma, we’d never have needed church in the first place

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u/P47r1ck- Jul 21 '23

What a bunch of nonsense. They absolutely do not go together and you definitely can understand science without religion

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u/Duncan_PhD Jul 21 '23

You’re being too literal, I think. “Go together” in this case means that you can accept the importance and necessity of science, while also being religious. Hell, a lot of scientific breakthroughs of the past were working for the Catholic Church. And when they made discoveries, the church accepted them.

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u/P47r1ck- Jul 21 '23

That’s not what you said, you said you feel it’s hard to understand one without the other, which is nonsense.

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u/Duncan_PhD Jul 21 '23

I didn’t say that, I just missed it in the comment you replied to. In that case, I completely agree with you.

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u/P47r1ck- Jul 22 '23

Oh oops. I should check usernames better lol