People have been reasoning about this stuff for thousands of years and SWEs act like they can just make shit up. Same for psychology of mind and consciousness.

People have been reasoning about this stuff for thousands of years and SWEs act like they can just make shit up. Same for psychology of mind and consciousness. AI has thrust the tech industry into fields they've been ignoring, and now the tendency is to just continue to ignore them, pretending they don't exist, and filling the void with naive garbarge. Soft isn't so soft anymore -- and never was, always has been, always will be hard.