Justin Smith-Ruiu: “[My] concern is not that we’re overestimating what machines might soon be able to do … but that we are systematically underselling the common understanding of what it is that human beings in fact do. We are now raising a generation of human beings who have come to believe of themselves that machines can do, or will soon be able to do, everything they as humans do, as well or better than themselves. This proves that they have accepted the model of themselves as essentially information systems. They don’t know, or can’t make any sense of the fact, that they are boiling over with affect, let alone that this is the dimension of them that they would do well to focus on if they wish to get some kind of handle on the human essence.”