carbon chauvinism

English

Noun

carbon chauvinism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) The doctrine that the molecules responsible for the chemical processes of life must be constructed primarily from carbon.
  2. (derogatory) The doctrine that artificial intelligence can't possibly be sentient or truly intelligent because its physical substrate isn't biological, carbon-based matter.

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