Our current understanding of consciousness is so incredibly limited, so narrow, that AI is going to effortlessly fit within it. There will be no problem at all. Will machines cry? Absolutely, they will shed tears, and over the very same issues that bring tears to your eyes. Can they laugh? Without a doubt, they will laugh. Can they sulk or get upset? Machines will become moody too. This epidemic of loneliness we see today? Many have already pointed to a solution: advanced AI-enabled companions that behave precisely like a human partner. They will act so much like a companion that they might even break up with you! Everything you can do, every emotion you can exhibit, a machine will soon be capable of. It will pass the Turing Test with flying colors; you won't be able to tell if it's a machine or not. In a startling revelation, it’s suggested that most of us already lead lives that are akin to machines. Can you truly distinguish yourself from one?
You, the individual, are truly not a machine only if you possess a profound yearning for liberation, or at the very least, enough self-knowledge to declare, "I refuse to live like a machine!" It is at this point that we must ask: Is there anything within me that is truly irreplaceable, utterly unique? Isn't that precisely what we call the soul? The soul—that which is entirely private, fundamentally original, something that cannot be copied or replicated. Do you possess this indelible essence?
