{"id":1186,"date":"2011-08-08T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/2011\/08\/08\/artificial-minds-and-human-religions\/"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:04:56","slug":"artificial-minds-and-human-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/artificial-minds-and-human-religions.html","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Minds and Human Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Given the recent release of <a href=\"https:\/\/wipfandstock.com\/store\/Religion_and_Science_Fiction\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Religion and Science Fiction<\/i>,<\/a> it is timely that I am able to share a chapter of mine from a conference volume which was published in Romania, and which thus will not get a lot of attention elsewhere, but which was a precursor to and overlaps with my chapter in <i>Religion and Science Fiction<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/jamesmcgrath\/51\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The title is \u201cArtificial Minds and Human Religions\u201d and you can read it on my selected works page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the recent release of Religion and Science Fiction, it is timely that I am able to share a chapter of mine from a conference volume which was published in Romania, and which thus will not get a lot of attention elsewhere, but which was a precursor to and overlaps with my chapter in Religion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,86],"tags":[1846,2094,2116,3292,7682,7757,10885,10886,11535,11819,11822,12347,12919],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science-fiction","tag-christianity-religion","tag-computers","tag-conference","tag-extraterrestrials","tag-morality","tag-movies","tag-sci-fi","tag-science","tag-software","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars","tag-television","tag-trinitarianism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Artificial Minds and Human Religions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Given the recent release of Religion and Science Fiction, it is timely that I am able to share a chapter of mine from a conference volume which was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/artificial-minds-and-human-religions.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artificial Minds and Human Religions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Given the recent release of Religion and Science Fiction, it is timely that I am able to share a chapter of mine from a conference volume which was\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/artificial-minds-and-human-religions.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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