Your definition of “explicit” must be different from mine. Working on prototype arithmetic units and toying with the universal characteristic is AI research? He subscribed wholeheartedly to the ideographic myth; the most he would have been capable of is a machine that passes around LISP tokens.
In any case, based on the Monadology, I don’t believe Leibniz would consider the creation of a godlike entity to be theologically possible.
Your definition of “explicit” must be different from mine. Working on prototype arithmetic units and toying with the universal characteristic is AI research? He subscribed wholeheartedly to the ideographic myth; the most he would have been capable of is a machine that passes around LISP tokens.
In any case, based on the Monadology, I don’t believe Leibniz would consider the creation of a godlike entity to be theologically possible.