Well I think that understates the actual vastness and complexity and actual 'magic' that's embodied in a system capable of such a thing as thinking. And I do t

Well I think that understates the actual vastness and complexity and actual 'magic' that's embodied in a system capable of such a thing as thinking. And I do think that so many people are motivated to dispute this precisely because it feels scary that we might merely be such a thing, and we need to reserve some extra special thing, some form of magic, in order to differentiate ourselves as special. Darwin's Dangerous idea by Daniel Dennett is one of my favorite books because it tackles this very idea.