> I certainly understand the religious perspective. If you believe humans/life is special, created by some higher power, and that the created cannot create, the

> I certainly understand the religious perspective. If you believe humans/life is special, created by some higher power, and that the created cannot create, then AGI is not possible. Well the created clearly can create. I mean, obviously humans (and indeed all life) can reproduce and create new living things... it's just a completely automatic process with a chicken and egg problem. (i.e. to create life you need starting ingredients that are already alive by some metric). The question though from the religious perspective is whether or not living things have "spirits" or "souls" that causes them to be alive (as opposed to a bunch of matter with the same chemical makeup that is not alive). Because if they do, then creating artificial life would require somehow binding a "spirit" or "soul" into your artificial life vessel which is something we don't know how to do.