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What makes it “common sense” that being made of cells makes you conscious but being able to learn and speak does not?

• avgcorrection 4y ago
  The made of cells thing is an old superstition that merely makes relatively more sense[1] than this modern techy superstition: A human is living matter, is conscious, so why not trees aswell The techy superstition, however, involves people looking at AI programs, acknowledging that we know how they work, and then for some odd reason want to insist that they could now or at some point gain the emergent property of consciousness. Based on what? Well because they “learn”. And “speak”. What are these two words? Metaphors based on what humans do. So some computer programs can do things that we metaphorically compare to our own skills. And that imbues them with consciousness? How? At this point you get the response that all theists insist upon in the end, when it all comes down to it: Why not? Incredulity, in other words. Why not God? Why not a ghost in the machine? Can you disprove that there is a ghost in the machine? [1] Not in an absolute sense