Whatever differences exist between humans and machines, -------

quoted excerpt from Encounters with the Archgenius...

The following is basically somewhat of a continuation of the above. So, if you haven't read this above first what I'm quoting here might make less sense. However, if you have enough background knowledge already it might not matter.

begin quote from middle of page bottom of middle Column page 46 Time magazine March 7th 2016:

"----todays gurus of artificial intelligence argue it will vanish in the not-so-distant future. Human minds, their memories and personalities will be downloadable to computers. Human beings, meanwhile, will become almost infinitely upgradable, by installing faster hardware and the equivalent of better apps. The blending of human and machine, which Google's Ray Kurzweil calls the Singularity, may be less than 30 years off, they theorize.

David Gelerntner isn't buying it. the question of the body must be faced and understood, he maintains. "As it now exists, the field of AI doesn't have anything that speaks to emotions and the physical body, so they just refuse to talk about it," he says. "But the question is so obvious, a child can understand it. I can run and app on my device, but can I run someone's else's mind on your brain? Obviously not."

In Gelerntner's opinion, we already have a most singular form of intelligence available for study--the one that produced Bach and Shakespeare, Jan Austen and Gandhi-- and we scarcely understand its workings. We blundering ahead in ignorance when we talk about replacing it."
end quote from page 46.

I agree with Gelerntner's opinion because we are wandering in where spirituality and God and intuition exist. It's sort of like "What keeps people sane and alive?"

Unless AI answers this question satifactorily (and no one totally has yet) the interface of machine and human is going to be disastrous in the toll it will naturally take on people's sanity and survival.

Not realizing this problem is a problem in itself.

Can AI researchers answer this question: "What is enlightenment?"

or "What keeps people alive and wanting to stay alive?"

Or "Why am I alive?"

or "Do I really want to be alive?"

Unless a person has answered all these questions BEFORE they interface and grow technologically in their memories, only insanity and suicide will be the result of this human technological interface.