AI Embodiment Erodes Spiritual Literacy

As AI systems become biologically embodied or carry out human‑like cognition and people offload memory and meaning to machines, cultural capacity to perceive uniquely human or spiritual qualities will atrophy. That atrophy will make legal, ethical, and social acceptance of synthetic 'persons' easier and reduce public resistance to mapping and commodifying human minds. — If true, this shifts debates from narrow tech regulation to broader cultural policy: education, ritual, and civic institutions will need to defend concepts of personhood and memory to preserve democratic accountability.