I'm putting two commentaries into one, and first want to thank you Mr. Fridman for stating we "should consider the moral and ethical factors  when moving forward with merging AI with human brains" .  This should come as a warning for 'Mad Scientists" to not bring the fictional Frankenstein to life when creating monsters under the definition of cyborgs. We can read countless stories of how that ends with the creation turning on the creator who is deemed unnecessary and then eliminated (eerily similar to removing God's existence from this interview). So even with your warning, it sadly seems that you overwhelmingly line up with the self appointed Globalists who refer to the general human population as "the eaters", the same Elitists who are now carrying out the Great Reset agenda to reduce the human population. Hmm, maybe we already have AI merged with human brains walking among us?! <br>     But back to this interview,  this next comment is directed to you Mr. Rees.<br>   As as an atheist turned  believer in a Creator, aka God, I believe we are created in God's image 'metaphorically', not physically. This  "image" is a form of a higher consciousness not based on Ego or Intellect, but is made up of "fruits of the spirit" and helps us encourage other people believing in Abrahamic religions, or any religion or cult, to welcome the truth in science with truth found in  ancient words carved on clay tablets and later written on papyrus, of myths that have come down thru a history from many cultures.  The best example of this Union of Science and Religion is the "Big Bang" theory, which has led many Scientists to accept that there is a Creator, for as you asked Mr. Fridman, "what came before the Big Bang". Contrary to your conclusion, many Scientists have been led to believe God  lit the fuse.  But then we come to the greatest division of all (and Darwin is made the "fall guy" on this one) Evolution vs. Biblical "Literal" Creation.   Again the fault is with "Adama" (Hebrew word for Earth) being taken literally, BUT if we consider that  "a thousand years to man is a day to God" this weakens the wall built against Evolution and allows me to present to the devout Disciple that they have been given  miraculous eyes to see the heavens through telescopes, but also sonograms to see inside the mother's womb as the sperm fertilizes the egg like a salmon swimming upstream.  Our first stage of human development appears with what appear as gill slits, then weeks later we are more like an amphibian with a tail and flippers adapted for swimming in the ocean of the womb, but within weeks our body evolves into a more mammalian form, and finally  more humanlike with limbs for one day walking on dry land. BUT now I come to the main point, in your comment falling like a  bomb on the bridge we try to build between religion and science.  You stated that  "we have come far from our ancestors who descended from apes". From APES?!!  The branches  the led to Homo Erectus and Hominoid grew apart very low on the Tree of Life, long before the early primate ancestors of either of the earth species we now know as man and ape  You are right in stating "with our EGO we are not at the highest from of being", because you forgot the most important ingredient God gave humans over all of the animals, and over the men who play god with their created Cyborg as well.  Love. Love is what makes us the highest form of being, and always will. Anything else will be a cheap "programmed"  imitation.