For what it's worth, this happens every time there is a new technological innovation. Are human brains hydraulic systems? Are humans just a computer? Are they an LLM?

These technologies give some insight, but the answer is always not really. It would be good if we studied actual human brains in some detail if we want to know these answers.

> The wheel is invented

> "Life is just a turn on the great karmic wheel..."

> Writing is invented

> "In the beginning was the word..."

> The industrial age begins

> "God is a clockmaker..."

> Computers are invented

You know the rest

Every day we demonstrate what a cultural lack of liberal arts does to people.

Mind expanding further?

They aren't. However there is a coordinated effort to push this pseudo-philosophy on masses. On the one hand it degrades the idea of human consciousness or soul, calling it a fiction. On the other hand it props the AI, calling its pile of transistors almost brain-like.

> it degrades the idea of human consciousness or soul, calling it a fiction

I guess they usually mean that is fiction the part of the story where is said that it is separated from the brain

It kind of needs to be separate, otherwise it is just consciousness.

How can something inexplicable like consciousness be considered "degraded"?

Who is coordinating this effort?

Whoever profits from it.