philosophy, you have to fix your foundations and arguably invest in philosophy. Very few people did that right, so our null hypothesis still seems to be supernatural beings and dualism and so on. And that's one of the reasons why most people in the Western world

find AI so ridiculous and unlikely. It's not because people don't see that we are biological computers and that the universe is probably mechanical. In the theory that everything is mechanical gives extremely good predictions. It's because deep down they still have this null hypothesis

that the universe is somewhat supernatural and we are the most supernatural thing in it. And science is only reluctantly pushing back against this null hypothesis. And since it has not completely obliterated the null hypothesis in this single area, the conscious consciousness and the mind

we are reluctant in accepting the certainty, this reasonable certainty that we are machines. But this is the main reason why we hesitate so much. I think you

Why are we reluctant to accept that we are machines - @SingularityFM

Why are we reluctant to accept that we are machines - @SingularityFM