Yeah. I think I’d consider that a form of backdoor anthropomorphization by way of vitalism, though. Since we tend to think of physically nonhuman intelligences as cognitively human, and since we tend to think of human ethics and cognition as something sacred and ineffable, fictional attempts to eff them tend to be written as crude morality plays.
Intelligence arising organically from a telephone exchange or an educational game or something doesn’t trigger the same taboos.
Yeah. I think I’d consider that a form of backdoor anthropomorphization by way of vitalism, though. Since we tend to think of physically nonhuman intelligences as cognitively human, and since we tend to think of human ethics and cognition as something sacred and ineffable, fictional attempts to eff them tend to be written as crude morality plays.
Intelligence arising organically from a telephone exchange or an educational game or something doesn’t trigger the same taboos.