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t1_j9if6mj wrote

Ancient people did not understand natural phenomena, such as atmospheric events, astronomical events, seasonal cycles in agriculture, etc. In some cases, they came up with belief systems where supernatural entities such as deities governed those phenomena.

Today, science has explanations for many of those natural phenomena. Even with some open questions still remaining, now we understand things well enough so that we can articulate what is going on in clear terms without the need for a god of thunder, god of rain, etc.

I think you're following the steps of the early human cultures that tried to assign a God to what you perceive as unexplained phenomena. Namely: black holes, AI, sentience, etc.

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t1_j9j68sv wrote

>Today, science has explanations for many of those natural phenomena

Depends what you mean by explanations. You can always keep asking "why?" and at some point you won't be able to answer so you can just put god in there just like the early humans did. If you think what they did was reasonable then the same principle applies here, it's just that we have a deeper level of understanding

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OP t1_j9ifb16 wrote

I am an athiest

I do not believe in god

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t1_j9ihc8i wrote

What do you see here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tt7aqHFUCU

This animation consists of geometric figures moving. But your mind may attribute mental states, intentions and even a personality to those figures.

This capability, "theory of mind", makes humans and other animals capable of attributing mental states even to inanimate objects that do not have a mind. In your case: black holes and other stuff.

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t1_j9ipqib wrote

This we do not understand is complete bs. Just we can't run through the math in any reasonable time frame. Effectively we know how, just we don't know which exact path without marking it... which we can and will do sometimes.

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