If we didn't value humans more than other things we wouldn't have survived as a species. You can argue over terminology, but you can't beat evolution.

I'd imagine that you'd prioritize saving a human child from a fire over saving a machine or a meat based robot. Why?

I’d save my mom over you. No hard feelings.

My point is your composition or substrate or whatever is irrelevant.

We're definitely not just meat robots. We agonize over what we are and what we're supposed to do with our lives. Meat robots don't do that, and I suspect hardly any animals do either.

Art is a way in which we grapple with such questions. I am yet to see a surprising contriubtion by an AI.

No, it's not a religious view. It may be because I'm a human and care deeply about humans. I care nothing about machines. They're just machines.

> Can you explain why exactly?

Yeah. What have humans ever done for us?

Except for roads. And buildings. And infrastructure and machines.

>> I absolutely see humans as being more special than machine

> Can you explain why exactly?

Because humans designed and built machines before machines could design and build humans.

Robots can be thrown in the trash when the newer models come out. Describing humans as robots with an adjective tacked on is, quite literally, dehumanization - a favorite tactic of fascist creep. Hence why, despite not being religious myself, I always view people like you who profess such views with more than a little suspicion.