Jeremiah Allen

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"Jeremiah is a 42-year-old former US Army soldier and Iraqi war veteran ('04-'05). After leaving military service, he worked as a Computer Network Security Expert for the US Missile Defense Agency. In 2013, he left his lucrative career and relocated his wife & two children to pursue ministry in Belize as an entrepreneur. Jeremiah is passionate about Jesus and sharing the Good News with others by living out the Great Commission in everyday life."

Note

I thought I'd note (for anyone who might be wondering, which I grant might be no one) that I'm not against property dualism. It's just that I'm not currently persuaded that it fits well with a naturalistic worldview. (It may do, so maybe someone could help me with that.) It seems to me rather "convenient" that certain types of complexity (such as the human brain) should actualise a potential for consciousness already latent in the stuff of the universe. Why should that be the case? On naturalism, it seems to me that we should have to say, "Well that's just the way it is", which, to my mind, would leave unexplained why the universe somehow "knew" that we were going to turn up some day. From a theistic perspective, however, this would make more sense (to me at any rate), because that would allow us to understand such a latent property as intended to become active in connection with specific froms of complexity as part of a universal design plan. (And that—to return to the subject discussed in the interview—would leave doubtful that AI would ever meet the specific requirements of that intention.)

Items mentioned in / relevant to the conversation

• TMR 284 : Pastor Stephen Buckley : Weep, Wake & Fear Not

• TMR 282 : Following Christ in the New Old Normal (with Rev Phill Sacre & Julian Charles)

• TMR 278 : Pastor Henry Hildebrandt : God, Ottawa & the Truckers

• TMR 269 : Sophia Rose : A Stand In The Park

• TMR 253 : James Corbett : On The Great Reset

• TMR 186 : David Greenockle : Homo Technologicus and the Love of Servitude

• TMR 076 : Max Andrews : Molinism - A Glimpse into the Mind of God?

• TMR 014 : Holding Things Lightly

• "Geordie Rose : Quantum Computing: Artificial Intelligence Is Here" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqN_2jDVbOU)

• Yuval Noah Harari (https://www.ynharari.com/)

• Harari, "...we will be beyond the god of the Bible" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpY_TomP06U)

• Reasonable Faith with Dr William Lane Craig (https://www.reasonablefaith.org/)

• James Corbett, The Crisis of Science (https://www.corbettreport.com/the-crisis-of-science/)

• Marc Morano, "UN official at WEF: ‘We own the science & we think that the world should know it’...", WattsUpWithThat.com (01 October 2022)

• Professor David Chalmers on property dualism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPquWfODJ9g)

• Revelation 13 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013&version=NIV)

• Matthew 8:1-4 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208%3A1-4&version=NIV)

• Galatians 5:22-23 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%205%3A22-23&version=NIV)

• Genesis 3 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+3&version=NIV)

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