I think it is inevitable. Here are two premises I base that conclusion on that I think are true:
1. There is nothing about human consciousness that is supernatural - that is to say, there is nothing in the biology of our brains that cannot, with enough time and research, be reproduced artificially.
2. Human progress in the development of computer systems will continue.
The second is arguably challengeable, in the sense that you could rationally take the view that we'll all either wipe ourselves out completely somehow or otherwise regress socially to a new dark age where progress halts or moves backwards. That's not that comforting, though.
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"The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
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