The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. …eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious "proof" that such adventures are futile.
