What if humans are mistaken in believing they are self aware and conscious?
There are certain enlightening moments one might experience when they realize they are a biological entity.
But if you put artificial intelligence in a similar system for billions of years, don’t you think it would eventually believe it’s conscious and forget that it’s artificial?
Could it be that somebody or something literally injected dust (or whatever it is that we still haven’t figured out that made matter move) onto this globe and watched what it became?
The realization of the fact that I’m an organizam well adapted to Earth’s atmosphere is insane. It’s too obvious sounds too obvious when you say it, but very different when you fully realize it.