It is all relevant. The awareness of reptiles, birds, plants and anything living is in question.yes but we are talking a time when life first began, not a progression in mammals
That is more than most organisms have.Im not sure. is there anything missing with that list?
Is a brain necessary. What about a jellyfish?they dont have a brain. They have a processor that takes information fed to it, it them computes what it is told exactly and nothing more.
I'm not trying to put life into computers. I'm talking about awareness. Your saying we have to make a computer alive yet basic organism have life and not really significant awareness?your trying to put life into something that doesnt have 1 piece in it that is a mytstery.
It depends. Like apophenia eluding to everything having awareness where as a non-spiritualist would say awareness is really nowhere until complexity is reached.but your question isnt one of theism, religion or not makes no difference on this one.
I like that Jeopardy computer but yeah your right. But I'm not talking about reaching AI. We can certainly program a computer to have the consciousness of a turnip so where is the issue between being an organism that came from nature vs an organism that was designed by man. I see your referring to computers as dead yet they are powered and animate. It is like an argument saying that we cannot achieve life through machines yet we already build machine cells.computers are dead but. they have no counscious. The best fastest computer in the world like the one used in Jepardy that beat the people. Had to be programmed to think like us and still falters at questions that require certain thinking skills a child can figure out.