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“If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.”

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Damien Broderick

Damien Broderick, born on April 22, 1944, is an Australian science fiction author known for his profound philosophical thinking and unique imagination. His works cover themes such as time travel, artificial intelligence, and cosmic exploration. more

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