Machines do not essentially think. They don't know anything. There are systems of gates, of dumb components. They lack creativity and aren’t capable of what only human minds and imaginations can generate. Most neuroscientists believe that consciousness is just a byproduct of chemistry. Too many scientists imagine that if logical processing is accelerated to a high enough rate that somehow consciousness will emerge.
I believe that this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the mind. And that (misunderstanding) undermines much of the prevailing neuroscience and almost all of computer science that purports to be imitating minds (i.e., artificial intelligence).
The smartest people in the world believe in this materialistic superstition. They believe that the universe is explainable entirely in terms of chemistry and physics. That assumption, I believe, is manifestly false. But it is a religious conviction underlying almost all neuroscience and computer science.
-- George Gilder (The Daily Reckoning) June 22, 2019
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