that simply isn’t true. Spirit is our word for intuition, which we can easily re

that simply isn’t true. Spirit is our word for intuition, which we can easily replicate, and there is no reason a machine needs to ‘feel’ as we do only understand why and how we feel. And all feelings are in fact explicable and reducible to processes that are objectively understandable.

For example, if you lost your sense of touch, or smell, or hearing or sight, you would still be conscious. Consciousness is simply the effect of enough recursive memory. It will emerge in any life form that has sufficient brain scale and depends upon social cooperation.