The Last Cathedral

People who deny religion deny its principles based on faith without logic but in all instances every human being has faith in the most obvious of things. We all have faith that the other person we talk to or associate with or love has self awareness. There is no way on this earth that any one person can prove to anyone else they have self awareness. It is simply impossible. It is as impossible as proving that a machine capable of learning from its past attempts at a given task, has self awareness, or that an animal has self awareness, or a bacterium. Some cultures believed everything had self awareness and spirits, such as the Native Americans. Some religious beliefs today deny that anything but humans have souls (the essence of Self Awareness).

To believe the person you care about is as self aware of themselves as you are of yourself is purely based on faith, because self awareness has nothing to do with intelligence, or emotion, or senses (to a large degree). No one knows truly with what it has to do.

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Jebus

Self awareness is not faith.

The Last Cathedral

Of course it is, I can deny you're self aware and there is NOTHING you can do to prove me wrong. My believing you're self aware "and thus can be killed rather than turned off like a computer" is based entirely on faith.