The ideas of FTL travel or existence of bearded people in the sky were also explored for a long time. > as an echo of the past when people had the same debate

The ideas of FTL travel or existence of bearded people in the sky were also explored for a long time. > as an echo of the past when people had the same debate about women and non-Europeans. If you need help spotting the difference between skin color or gender variation and an imagined ability to imbue something we cannot even define (like consciousness) onto arbitrary substrates, I am not the right person for that.