> I don’t think we’ll be able to replicate consciousness until we’re able to make things alive at a biological level. But why? What gives you any confidence in

> I don’t think we’ll be able to replicate consciousness until we’re able to make things alive at a biological level. But why? What gives you any confidence in that? This is a very popular notion that I frequently encounter but I'm convinced that it is just barely disguised human exceptionalism. It is humbling to accept that the operation of your mind could be replicated by a machine, similar to how it was difficult for us to accept that the earth is not the center of the universe or that we evolved from animals.