I think that Jimmy Carr has it right: AI is the fourth great humiliation.
replyRegardless of whether something is concious, we're not going to be (by lay definition) the smartest entity on earth.
Human beings sometimes get outsmarted by predators. It's certainly a strange thing to take pride in intelligence as an inviolable absolute.
reply>and thus a Godless understanding of how it works
replyWe don't even have that much. Though, some people certainly think they do.
This doesn’t make sense at all.
replyI thought it was quite clear. Religious people will whine and revolt and oppose against anything that somehow isn't phrased as consciousness requiring a soul. Humans are physical systems, there is no reason other physical systems can't be consciousness. But we know the obvious reactions of religious people to someone actually showing a "godless" means of creating consciousness.
replyBingo.
replyThat is a far more eloquent way to express my word salad.