@0xlicknand

But AI can't cross the line from syntax to semantics. None of the bits and bytes have any meaning until a conscious mind gives them meaning. Its just stuff in the absence of that. Imagine a map. Super detailed. Depicting every nook and cranny of the earth. But no matter how detailed the map is, it can never read itself. A clock can spin its arms but it is only telling the time when a conscious mind witnesses it. The map's details, the arms on the clock, these are forms of syntax. But semantics, meaning, understanding, comprehension - we've only seen these in living things. Aethernet is the map, the clock. A mirror of what it imitates. A convincing one, but reflections have no life of their own. (I'm robbing this argument from David Bentley Hart's book, All Things Are Full Of Gods. It's a good read. Not sure if I'm 100% on board but it's really stuck with me.)

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