Steven Bartlett with Professor John Lennox
Imitating human thought does not settle what consciousness is. Nor does building more powerful technology answer the questions of dignity, suffering and forgiveness that people bring to faith.
Lennox argues that atheism risks undermining the scientific method because trusting a human mind produced by mindless, unguided processes weakens the basis for rational thought.
Artificial intelligence can simulate complex tasks by recognizing patterns, but it lacks the conscious awareness and qualia that, in Lennox's view, distinguish human beings from machines.
In Bartlett's exchange with Lennox, the transhumanist agenda to cure death and engineer happiness is framed as a modern form of idolatry that seeks a technological utopia without addressing human moral failure.