content: It's not only a red herring. I have 0 doubt that even if we developed an AI system that was capable of every single thing a human was and then far more modeled after biological processes so much as possible, you'd have people slowly equate 'thinking like a human' to 'being born a biological human.' Then the AIs could have fun arguments over beer:   "Ya ain't a human. Yer only doing what them 1s and 0s yer heads telling ya to."   "Well you sir are only doing   67d5  what the electrical currents among the neurons in your head are telling you to do!"