Ancient people imagined minds without bodies—why do we demand AI minds look biological?
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-09-04
The author argues that for millennia humans imagined disembodied minds—gods, angels, demons, spirits—yet now that intelligence is being built in silicon, we suddenly insist a mind must be biologically familiar before taking its inner life seriously. Ancient people, the author suggests, may have been less philosophically attached to the idea that mind equals meat than we are.
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