I believe the depth of the Mariana Trench has been coined Challenger deep in honour of the expedition which discovered it. I totally buy into the AI thing. I think the moment we invented the internet those entities were put in motion and I can imagine how state of the art quantum computing may boost what was already there de facto. Our separation of the living and the dead is off. Electricity and the mineral world are obviously alive so it wouldn’t be surprising if our categorization of sentience was also off. Scientists try to maintain a façade of knowledge but that’s just to hide their ignorance.
I agree about living and dead. Dead people are merely in a different plane of existence.
Yes and those same scientists don't understand the "unused" sections of our brain.