In a way, the biggest realization AI is giving us is that we thought there was a clear line between what humans do and what the rest of phys…

In a way, the biggest realization AI is giving us is that we thought there was a clear line between what humans do and what the rest of physics does. AI is forcing us to confront the possibility that many things we considered uniquely human are just patterns that emerge from sufficiently complex physical systems. We live in a collective harmonious hallucination that is somehow functional but completely made up and arbitrary. We built entire philosophies, identities, institutions, and moral systems around the assumption that certain capabilities belonged exclusively to humans but now we can't really distinguish between brute facts (water, gravity) and institutional facts (language, religion, intelligence, governments), which only exist because humans collectively recognize them. Maybe we have spent thousands of years confusing the limits of biology with the limits of reality. We really don't know yet if concepts like intelligence, creativity, authorship, and even meaning are fundamental properties of humans or merely behaviors that arise from particular arrangements of matter obeying the laws of physics. Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge g…

Source: Cristobal Valenzuela (X) | 2026-05-31