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"In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates."
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Source: Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.453, Oxford University Press
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