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This analogy doesn’t really work, because the former examples are ones in which humanity discovered that it existed in a larger world.

The recent AI example is humanity building, or attempting to build, a tool complex enough to mimic a human being.

If anything, you could use recent AI developments as proof of humanity’s uniqueness - what other animal is creating things of such a scale and complexity?




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