The Relevance of Artificial Intelligence to the Meaning Crisis in Modernity

Hobbes came up with the radical proposal that following on Descartes if matter is real then we can build a material computer and we could artificially make cognition. And of course that's going to exacerbate the cultural narcissism because if we no longer have souls then finding our uniqueness and our true self becomes extremely paradoxical and problematic. So intelligence is a product of the scientific revolution and is part and parcel of the advent of the meaning crisis in modernity.