The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.
Reductionism is merciless.
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
. . . all meaning comes from analogies.
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.
You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.