[net.religion.jewish] souls, ai, golems ...

sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher) (06/22/84)

From: David Sher  <sher>
In general most questions about souls don't seem to be (to me anyway)
particularly relevant to judaism which is a religion of life.  But
if the question is phrased this way:

In the law, (if I got it right) a person is jewish if he/she had
a jewish mother and did not convert.  So lets say that a jewish
woman wrote a computer program so sophisticated that it was considered 
to be a person.  Is the program thus jewish? 

-David

mis@spuxll.UUCP (06/25/84)

These questions are so irrelevant, because even with all the AI
in the world, only G-D, can make a man.

If I train a monkey is he Jewish?!

yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine) (06/27/84)

Funny, I've never seen God make a man.  They all seem to come from
women.  Where did you get your theory?  Mine is from observation, and
besides, my Rabbi said so.

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