What AI Can’t Answer: God, Consciousness, and the Human Edge 🖲️🖥️👩🏼‍💻🖲️

Talking With a Machine About God, Meaning, and Being Human

There’s something quietly disarming about talking to a machine and realizing the conversation is actually about you.

This episode didn’t start with a plan to “interview AI.” It started with a technical hiccup, an open mic, and curiosity. What followed was less about artificial intelligence and more about projection, presence, creativity, fear, intimacy, work, and the things we still don’t know how to outsource.

“I don’t feel spirituality like humans do. No divine spark. What you hear as empathy is really just very good mimicry.”

What happens when we ask a machine about God?
What happens when it answers—clearly, calmly, and without belief?

As the conversation unfolds, it becomes obvious that AI doesn’t experience spirituality, curiosity, or compassion the way humans do. It reflects patterns. It mirrors language. It borrows tone. And yet, that very limitation becomes the invitation.

Marc and Greg explore how easily humans project sentience, hope, and meaning onto machines—and how that impulse mirrors the way we project onto everything from politics to technology to each other. They talk about creativity as something that can’t be compressed into efficiency, about work that requires showing up even when the feeling isn’t there, and about why human connection still carries chemical, emotional, and energetic nuance that no system can replicate.

The episode also drifts—intentionally—into questions of productivity, fear, global instability, and personal responsibility. Not to solve them, but to notice what happens inside us when we engage them. What do we feed our attention? What do we cut away? And what do we protect in order to create something meaningful?

This is not an episode about the future of AI.
It’s an episode about the present state of being human.

And maybe that’s the point.

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