You can only believe AI will someday supplant us if you believe a human being is basically a machine. But we have five characters: physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual. Computers can only deal with the physical. That leaves the greater part of what it means to be a human being untouched. If you ever figure out how firing neurons can create consciousness, let us all know. Until the time I have to believe this obsession with AI is just another one of science's many headlong rushes into a blind alley.
You can only believe AI will someday supplant us if you believe a human being is basically a machine. But we have five characters: physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual. Computers can only deal with the physical. That leaves the greater part of what it means to be a human being untouched. If you ever figure out how firing neurons can create consciousness, let us all know. Until the time I have to believe this obsession with AI is just another one of science's many headlong rushes into a blind alley.
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