{"id":76741,"date":"2026-07-30T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/ive-spent-years-researching-what-it-means-to-be-alive-this-is-what-ive-learned-melanie-challenger\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:55:05","slug":"ive-spent-years-researching-what-it-means-to-be-alive-this-is-what-ive-learned-melanie-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/ive-spent-years-researching-what-it-means-to-be-alive-this-is-what-ive-learned-melanie-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I\u2019ve learned | Melanie Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the experience of life, don\u2019t look to the mind. Look to the body<\/p>\n<p>In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/SPEWAB-2\">somatophobia<\/a>\u201d to describe the strange human delusion that we are minds rather than bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Forty years later, artificial intelligence is everywhere, offering the most powerful illusion yet that intelligence can exist without flesh. Two-thirds of people surveyed in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/news\/media\/ai-conscious-most-people-say-yes\">study<\/a> believe that tools like ChatGPT possess some consciousness and feeling. We are living in the age of somatophobia. Now is the moment to resist it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/30\/alive-body-life-experience\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the experience of life, don\u2019t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term \u201csomatophobia\u201d to describe the strange human delusion that we are minds rather than bodies. Forty years later, artificial intelligence is everywhere, offering the most powerful illusion yet &#8230; <a title=\"I\u2019ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I\u2019ve learned | Melanie Challenger\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/ive-spent-years-researching-what-it-means-to-be-alive-this-is-what-ive-learned-melanie-challenger\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I\u2019ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I\u2019ve learned | Melanie Challenger\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}