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You say, "You love me." Describe to me how love feels. AI is already today able to describe how love feels better than 90% of humans. For a simple reason, it has read all the love poems in history, basically. If it's only words, it will be better than us. In religion, if you think religion is ultimately words, it's a text, it's the Bible, it's the Quran. AI will take over religion. Is there something beyond words? Is there something beyond language? You know the Tao Te Ching, the basic text of Taoism, opens with the sentence: "The Tao that can be expressed in words is not the real Tao." The truth that can be expressed in words is not the real truth. You have to go beyond the words to the experience, to consciousness, to feelings. Anything that is just on the level of words, AI will be better than us. So if consciousness is the ability to convince other people with words that you are conscious, AI will be conscious. Is there something special about carbon atoms and organic chemistry that only organic bodies can sustain consciousness? We don't know. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, to reach goals, to master things like language and mathematics. Consciousness is the ability to actually feel something. Feel love or hate or pain. In terms of intelligence, it will surpass us.