what if that question — Will AI replace us? — is built on a hidden assumption we’ve never examined? Most people take for granted that intelligence, whether biological or artificial, is just computation. The brain is a computer. The universe is an information processor. Everything is digital. But there’s a deeper possibility — one that philosophical mathematicians like Gödel and modern thinkers have poked at — a possibility that flips the entire discussion: Whether AI can repl

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