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Could be you have the right of it. I'm at a point in life where argument about intelligence is unrewarding and so like a thomist I state my view, I don't seek to rebut or defend. Belief, like faith is anchored in axioms which beg questions. I am a non believer (athiest, not agnostic) and i am a non believer in emergent ai from the current activity.

My comments to evidence are about as far as i go to argument and yes they do invite "so you are absolutist but open to evidence" and I certainly acknowledge a burning bush would be very hard to refute hallucinations aside. Not ai hallucinations I hasten to add, the human kind.