I'm fascinated that computing, science and religion, like parallel lines that do meet in space, are now asking the same question: Is consciousness obliged to materiality?
Although my own uncle was losing the ability to process memories, the artwork generated by EEG data explored the materiality of remembering and stood as a tribute to what my uncle had lost.
Indeed, if extremely powerful AI failed to supercharge growth, it would suggest that the economy had already moved beyond materiality towards play, politics and areas where what people value most of all is interacting with others.