[bell-cot]

In a Philosophy 307 class, your "advanced AI beyond imagination...mimic all of the human activity..." description begs some questions about souls, or other "special sparks of magic" which somehow distinguish such AI's from real humans. And exactly how those souls or sparks or whatever might pass Carl Sagan's Invisible Dragon Test.

But in the real world - those same descriptive words are written by a Marketing Dept. The actual engineers, who developed and built the AI, on an all-too-finite budget, know otherwise. And know that the PHB's already have plans to cut the production cost - by collecting data on which parts of the already-limited "mimic all human activity" are ignored by the AI's actual customers, and quietly nerfing or removing those parts.

[agronomov]

That special spark of magic is my feelings that I experience all the time. I'm not talking about souls -- amoeba probably also experiences things (just by analogy form us)