@2Philosophical_ Thank to God this topic was not relevant to the primitive Church. These kinds of debates started when philosophers entered Christianity.
@micahtredding Existentialists complained about the time we take to satisfy our body needs. Some say Jean Paul Sartre used to talk aloud while urinating in order to not stop a good conversation with a friend.
@micahtredding Why should have? The web did not represent an existential threat. The current denial of existential threat in AI has precedents: scientist denying Radio was the cause of teeth decaying in the 1920's and scientists denying thalydomide caused mal formations in the 50's.
@zoltan_istvan Do not retrieve information from the past. The past can not save us, A Book of the Samurai describing for how long a severed head is still conscious, Xenophanes describing mothers dropping their children from the wall city before the enemy enters... let us just look ahead,