Certainly some might see him as if he's sharing wisdom, but maybe you could speculate on the average level of intelligence and openmindedness of a crowd attending a KRS-One gig. Peace out to my Hiphop nig.... uhm... brothers, tho  
To me it appeared that he tried to offer the crowd to plant a precious seed in their minds. Trying to set a starting point on the long road you called wisdom, maybe.
On the other hand, the simple approach to explanation, with the help of demonstration, would make an average 12yo understand it. And maybe also some fulltime stoner on a KRS-One concert.

Now to the main point, the book:

First of all, i wouldn't recommend it to a minor.

Second, i wouldn't recommend it to a Hiphop stoner, too (Sorry guys, no offense, really).

Third, it is showing the complexity of the immaterial system of living beings. No woke bullshit. "Wokeness" didn't even exist by the writing of this book.

It's a thought experiment of a university professor, constructing an artificial "soul" from sensory input to a (possibly) self-aware, self-managing, self learning, individual being. A tech equivalent to something like this has yet to be made.
But modern "AI's" are already like spermcells of real AI.
...and will they even integrate with quantum computing?
Which might not even be a good idea, but how do we know?

Back to topic: AI is machine learning, not AI, at the time and probably for longer times. If Moore's law would have been right, we would be a little bit ahead now, but Murphy's law is unlikely to be broken anytime soon