This is a minor abridgement of a huge dialogue, originally posted on 19 March 2002. This is from the good old Internet days (now long gone) when Wide-ranging & very substantive dialogue on many aspects of development of doctrine, with Protestant apologist Jason Engwer: concentrating on the biblical canon.
Dr. Rodrigo Silva ("ecumenical" Brazilian Seventh-day Adventist and former Catholic) obtained a doctorate in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Faculty I interact in great depth with a video presentation from Dr. Rodrigo Silva, a Brazilian Seventh-day Adventist, regarding the many strong NT evidences for the papacy.
Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots capable of assisting people that need care are just some among the successful examples of machine intelligence. This kind of progress might entice us to envision a society populated by autonomous robots capable of performing the same tasks humans do in the near future. This prospect seems limited only by the power and complexity of current computational devices, which is improving fast. However, there are several significant obstacles on this path. General intelligence involves situational reasoning, taking perspectives, choosing goals, and an ability to deal with ambiguous information. We observe that all of these characteristics are connected to the ability of identifying and exploiting new affordances-opportunities (or impediments) on the path of an agent to achieve its goals. A general example of an affordan