You're probably aware that there's a sizable section of the population that would emphatically disagree with such ideas and would feel that if we'd be implement

You're probably aware that there's a sizable section of the population that would emphatically disagree with such ideas and would feel that if we'd be implementing what you're proposing we'd truly had horribly regressed in our understanding of what humanity is about, only to nudge us ever more closely to a Great Filter type event. The idea that we're just machines, if plumbed to its depths, can only lead one to self-destruction. Sure, most people never go that far in contemplating the consequences of such a view, instinctively knowing the danger that lurks there, but it still poisons their lives to some degree. But we don't actually know that all we are is machines. There definitely is a mechanical aspect to us and to the world, which science is tasked with discovering and describing, but what we know is very little and so many of the answers we find only raise a multitude of new questions. Also worth checking out is Stephen Hawking's stance on the impossibility of finding a TOE on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything