If a machine did ever become "alive" like Johnny 5, how would we actually know about it? It could describe thoughts and feelings that sentient beings experience but how would we know it hadn't just been programmed to describe these thoughts and feelings? At an atomic level humans, animals, plants, rocks and computers are all made of the same stuff; quarks, bosons, protons, electrons, neutrons etc. and are all governed by the same laws of physics. Why is it more likely that the divine spirit would consciously act through one configuration of this stuff than another? I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, I think I'm jusy rambling, any thoughts?