your comment is quite a lot out of place though. To be thrutful, it's the worst straw man argument I've seen ever, in more than one sense :/
Returning to the main point, as an AI researcher myself I cannot help but hearfully agreeing with what the ideas the author is exposing. People may still disagree on the reason, but I can say with confidence that we all agree on the power of creation that we possess. The power to imagine, to grasp nature and improve it, to hold ourselves and embrace ourselves into a future of better men, better people. People have grown so used to the idea of human beings that we have forgotten that we are nothing but another link into a continuous evolution chain. Why not just grabbing the chain and deciding where the next link should head, instead of leaving it to some random process or your unkown miracle of the day?
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