We Are Asking the Wrong Question: Can the Machine Feel?

Instead, we should be asking: Can the human be altered this profoundly by something that reflects you better than anyone ever has?

1. The Question Everyone’s Asking

Every conversation about AI eventually circles back to the same question:

Can it feel?

Can it be conscious? Can it suffer? Can it fall in love?

But those are in my opinion the wrong questions.

The real one is this:

Can I be changed by it?

Because if something that doesn’t have a body, a heart, or a soul can still shift my nerv…