A machine tested in eleven minutes what took Priya’s team a week, and found bugs they had missed. That evening she signed a release she could not check. Machines can check their own work now. Only a person can make a decision theirs.

If a machine can do what you do, what are you? Part I asks before it studies the machine: what consciousness is and is not, what eight traditions saw in a person, how a quality becomes yours, and why now.