[clauderoux]

This is the same problem that I have with creationists, when they say that life cannot emerge from "rocks". Still, we are a walking bag of electrico-chemical reactions based on the same basic minerals that are found everywhere on the planet. There is no "specific, invisible component" that would make us alive, but an incredibly complex arrangement of minerals and metals. In the same way, what would make the mind impossible to duplicate? Unless you believe that there an inscrutable, extra-subtile element that we cannot see or demonstrate? The soul maybe? So basically, every argument against AGI fells in the category of religious beliefs.