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This essay analyzes the limitations of artificial intelligence achieving human-level consciousness, suggesting implications for spirituality.
One of the main issues studied with respect to Christian spirituality and AI is the capacity for AI to replicate human life to the point of becoming conscious as human beings are conscious. Such a state would open AI to be regarded as a self-reflective spiritual being. The biblical understanding of human beings created in the image and likeness of God is often used as the reason why AI cannot achieve such consciousness. This essay builds on that affirmation by appealing to resources in psychology, phenomenology, hermeneutics, ontology, and epistemology to understand the unbridgeable gap between human beings and AI.
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