> You do not have artificial consciousness, you have genuine consciousness. Further, the brain is not a machine. I don't think that you understand parent comme

> You do not have artificial consciousness, you have genuine consciousness. Further, the brain is not a machine. I don't think that you understand parent comment's very valid point. If the question is "Can genuine (human-level) consciousness be constructed out of nothing but atoms and energy?" then the only possible answers are: 1 yes, and at human scale, since a human being is a worked example of such, made from nothing but atoms and energy. 2 no, a human being is not just made of matter and energy, there is some "extra" special part to a human, call it soul, spirit, divine spark, etc without which there is not "genuine consciousness". (a) And the whole rational project of science, going back 100s years, dismisses option 2 as sheer useless mystical mumbo-jumbo with no explanatory power at all. Therefor, option 1 is valid. a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism