First question: Is not this the biggest assumption here: that people are just quite naturally ‘human’ to begin with, then there are machines? It is not simply emotions that make someone human … (Christianity, for instance, once posed people had to do certain rituals to be considered part of humanity). Until this question is responded to, it is putting the cart before the horse to ask if a machine will take the job of a ‘human’. For there may very well be people who act, feel, and exist at the level of machines already.

Second: just a remark on Gödel’s incompleteness axiom and Church’s Thesis would clarify many of the hallucinations that computers — or formal systems – can do everything that ‘humans’ can or achieve consciousness. You situate this, but do not exploit it when you state<<An automated writer might be successful, but will it ever stop writing to reflect on itself and decide to pursue a new style?>>

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