Because it's based on physics, which is based on mathematics. Alternately, even if we one day learn that physics is not reducible to mathematics, both humans and computers are still based on the same physics.
Because it's based on physics, which is based on mathematics. Alternately, even if we one day learn that physics is not reducible to mathematics, both humans and computers are still based on the same physics.
And the soul?
So far, we have found no need for this hypothesis.
(Aside from "explaining" why AI couldn't ever possibly be "really intelligent" for those who find this notion existentially offensive.)
"emergent superintelligent AI" is as much superstition as believing in imaterial souls. One company literally used the term "people spirits" to refer to how LLMs behave in their official communications.
It's a cult. Like many cults, it tries to latch on science to give itself legitimacy. In this case, mathematics. It has happened before many times.
You're trying to say that, because it's computers and stuff, it's science and therefore based on reason. Well, it's not. It's just a bunch of non sequitur.
You're mistaking the thing for the tool we use to describe the thing.
Physics gives us a way to answer questions about nature, but it is not nature itself. It is also, so far (and probably forever), incomplete.
Math doesn't need to agree with nature, we can take it as far as we want, as long as it doesn't break its own rules. Physics uses it, but is not based on it.