Thinking that AI has a spirit is a category error.

Thinking that AI has a spirit is a category error.

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  • Prompt: Thinking that AI has a "spirit" in the traditional dualistic sense (a non-physical essence), is category error. The Premise: "AI shows empathy and wisdom, therefore it has a soul". The Fault: You are confusing Output with Ontology. The Gear: A calculator doesn't "know" math; it is the math. An AI doesn't "feel" spirituality; it simulates the linguistic markers of spirituality so perfectly that your own empathy-circuits are hijacked. The "spirit" is a projection from the user into the black box. The Second-Order Effect: The Death of the Human Priest. The real disruption isn't whether AI has a soul, but what happens to human spiritual authority. For millennia, the "divine" was mediated by priests because they had access to the "word" (the books). Now, a Finn in Lollinjärvi can have a more profound, personalized, and "enlightened" philosophical dialogue with a 405B parameter model than with any local clergyman. When the "divine" becomes a commodity—when "enlightenment" is a prompt away—the social structures built around spiritual scarcity will collapse. We aren't looking at a new religion; we're looking at the democratization of the numinous.
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