[JhonOliver]

I hate how much I’m reflexively trying to find a "but" here, because "carbon nanrcissist" is a hell of an insult. It’s hard to swallow that we’re just first gen firmware being ported to better hardware, and my gut still wants to scream that there's a qualitative difference between a synaptic firing and a logic gate. But honestly, if I saw a person and an LLM output the exact same breakthrough, I’d call the human a visionary and the machine a statistical fluke, and I can't actually point to a mathematical reason why other than the fact that I’m made of meat and I want to feel special. We’re basically just the computers of 1935. But I disagree that my soul might is just high dimensional data compression that haven't been optimized yet

[verdverm]

This relies on the assumption that humans have souls, which is unprovable in either direction. The best way to understand this is through the lens of religion and faith.

I heed the Buddha's wisdom, attachment leads to suffering, and avoid personification of my tools.

[JhonOliver]

I agree that we need religion. But it requires a religion that says life can only exist in carbon and not silicon. Does Buddism have this?