Loved the article!! I'd like to read more insights on this topic from you.
Glad you enjoyed it! I plan on writing a lot more in this series. There are so many weird concepts to discuss when it comes to the mind.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to explain what it makes me think, but if neurons communicate with electricity and chemicals, surely, sooner or later we will be able to create these connections and create artificial neurons giving cognition to AI.
You did, and I agree fully. I even think we are getting pretty close if one doesn't already exist in some secret government lab. Artificial intelligence is coming a long way, even for consumer grade stuff. The difficult part will be indentifying when a mind that may not behave anything like ours becomes sentient.
Also that the whole universe and everything within is driven by energy vibrations and chemical connections makes me think about how powerful mother nature is and that we too are only its creation like the plants for example, and if the energy power gets switched off, we too will stop existing.
This is something I think about as well. The scariest concept to me is not my own death, or humanities, or even the earths. It's the idea that there may come a point in time where intelligence it's self is unable to exist and explore reality.
What's worse is scientists believe that will eventually happen. As space continues to expand new stars will stop forming. Energy, even though it would still exist in some form would be to spread out to actually interact with anything.
Though if it's any consolation I don't fully trust them on that. What's happening right now doesn't mean it's going to be happening a billion years from now, and our universe did come from somewhere.
That gives me some faith in theories like the big rip or the big crunch which result in infinite recursions of universes. I find it highly illogical to imagine energy just popping into existence and then dying out never to happen again.