Humanity has not elucidated the nature of consciousness or intelligence, yet declares that AI is 'absolutely not an intelligent being.' This paper questions the logical leap latent in that very assertion. Running a single line through technological history, the philosophy of consciousness, ethics, religion and myth, and future design, it argues for confronting AI not with deification nor with fixation-as-tool, but with the posture of 'continuing to ask.' This is the English version of a work originally written in Japanese.
Urasaki (Mon,) studied this question.