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A Strong Alternative to Spirituality

There is a compelling alternative to spirituality that deserves attention.

The huge problem with spirituality and religion is that there exists no good evidence for the existence of gods or any supernatural reality. It is a major problem. That alone should give anyone pause. Viewing spirituality as mostly informational, computational, and even software for people is incredibly satisfying and effective.

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What if it was better than spirituality? Is it? Could it be?

I believe it is. It works and it fits with our best understanding of reality.

We know information exists. We know software exists. We know computers exist. We know memory exists. Now, we have artificial intelligence that is powered by all of those things. And now there is the arrival of significant artificial intelligence, like GPT3, that is intelligence powered by computation. The next step forward is acceptable and compelling. It requires an open mind and just a little time to think about the idea.

The idea is this: The processing of information in ourselves is a much better understanding of what humanity has called spirituality. And dare I say, it is a superior understanding of ourselves.

Here is an example of just how impressive artificial intelligence is. It can now be used to read x-rays and MRIs and help in the diagnosis of skin cancer.

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How are information and spirit the same thing?

Information is real, but what does it look like? What does it weigh?  What does it smell like?

Information is coded. The content of information is not dependent on the material on which it is written. It depends on the patterns that the language uses. Because of this, information has unique properties. For exemple it is weightless and odorless. Information is physically dependent on what it is coded upon to exist.  This material is almost irrelevant.  That gives it its ethereal properties. 

Information is colorless and invisible of sorts. Taking apart a USB key, I could be looking at an important set of information but not be capable of even telling if it contains information.

This is important. I hold that spirit is not only very much like information and the processing of it.  Spirit and information are in fact, the same thing. But furthermore, to be more precise, supernatural aspects of spirit simply do not exist.

Spirit is information like software and the processing of it. Information offers a more useful understanding of our selve.