alt Hacker News> Nothing in any major religion I’m aware of ascribes any supernatural explanation to cognition
Uh .. the Christian creation myth effectively assigns a supernatural explanation to everything as the literal creation of the divine. It's also very clear on the continuation of life after death in some form. It is not at all clear on how any of this is supposed to work or is connected to the physical universe, which has been a problem for Christian thinkers in the sciences.
> It’s a biological computational process
Like, I basically agree on this but it is not at all a given that millions of believers would agree that's the end of the question. Even within the Jawhist religions, before we get into whatever is going on with Shinto.
Most of Christianity puts some weight of "You" into the "soul". A machine can never have a soul. There are semi-explicit beliefs that what makes humans think "like us" is that soul and that things without a soul can never think "like us" and this belief survived even things like training animals.