Personhood

Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, mute idols, thanking Alexa, and I-Thou relationships
Are our brains little more than computing machines made out of meat?
First clockwork machines, then hydraulics, followed by the telegraph, and finally computers. But what are we really?
It seems pretty likely that we will all soon be interacting with ‘human-like’ AIs in the near future. But should this concern us?
I am aware of both the great power of scientific research and the challenges it leads us to
Humanoid robots are here and thus we need to think about what it means to be friends with a machine
Untangling personhood from consciousness, substance dualism and neurological reductionism