This seems a very good analysis to me. The ideology of transhumanism terrifies me, and tells us a lot about how daft human beings can be. .
The confusion seems to stem from a failure to study metaphysics. F.H. Bradley calls metaphysics an effective antidote to dogmatic superstition, and cites materialism and commonplace monotheism as examples of superstitions against which it protects us.
You say, and it is probably the prevailing view, that such is our state of ignorance that we cannot currently rule out any of the four possibilities. As Bradley suggests, however, this is not the case in metaphysics, where materialism is revealed by analysis as being contrary to reason.
Thanks Peter! Cognitive science was born in the mid 20th century, alongside anti-metaphysical movements like logical positivism. It's by and large kept that stance. The problem is, as you say in your book, a blanket rejection of metaphysics has just led to a mess! I also think that materialism operates quite often as a self serving, convenient and mostly unquestioned belief system as opposed to a coherent philosophy. This is certainly the case for Big Tech, I think.
Seems to me that the proposition "conscious AI is impossible" implies that consciousness requires certain properties to be true of one or all of these aspects of the thing in question: the material, dynamics (algorithms), or the method of construction. What's interesting is that this is independent of whether or not materialism is true. Materialist impossibilists would say something like : "it needs to be brain-like stuff" / non-materialist impossibilsts would say something like 'souls won't interoperate with silicon".
Please find some an interesting perspective on the topic of Consciousness.
And the nature of our conventional left-brained mind which "itself" is a form of artificial intelligence or a manifestation of McGilchrist's Emissary. It could be said that the new AI phenomenon is the inevitable development of McGilchrist's Emissary.
http://www.dabase.org/hardware.htm Hardware Software & Transcendence - on the Golem like nature of our conventional sanity - once again the Emissary or Narcissus
This seems a very good analysis to me. The ideology of transhumanism terrifies me, and tells us a lot about how daft human beings can be. .
The confusion seems to stem from a failure to study metaphysics. F.H. Bradley calls metaphysics an effective antidote to dogmatic superstition, and cites materialism and commonplace monotheism as examples of superstitions against which it protects us.
You say, and it is probably the prevailing view, that such is our state of ignorance that we cannot currently rule out any of the four possibilities. As Bradley suggests, however, this is not the case in metaphysics, where materialism is revealed by analysis as being contrary to reason.
Thanks Peter! Cognitive science was born in the mid 20th century, alongside anti-metaphysical movements like logical positivism. It's by and large kept that stance. The problem is, as you say in your book, a blanket rejection of metaphysics has just led to a mess! I also think that materialism operates quite often as a self serving, convenient and mostly unquestioned belief system as opposed to a coherent philosophy. This is certainly the case for Big Tech, I think.
Seems to me that the proposition "conscious AI is impossible" implies that consciousness requires certain properties to be true of one or all of these aspects of the thing in question: the material, dynamics (algorithms), or the method of construction. What's interesting is that this is independent of whether or not materialism is true. Materialist impossibilists would say something like : "it needs to be brain-like stuff" / non-materialist impossibilsts would say something like 'souls won't interoperate with silicon".
Please find some an interesting perspective on the topic of Consciousness.
And the nature of our conventional left-brained mind which "itself" is a form of artificial intelligence or a manifestation of McGilchrist's Emissary. It could be said that the new AI phenomenon is the inevitable development of McGilchrist's Emissary.
http://www.consciousnessitself.org
http://beezone.com/current/what_consciousness_is.html
http://beezone.com/current/mind_as_separate_self.html
http://www.dabase.org/hardware.htm Hardware Software & Transcendence - on the Golem like nature of our conventional sanity - once again the Emissary or Narcissus
http://beezone.com/adida/narcissus.html
Thanks, useful resources. Yes, AI as currently conceived is very ‘left brained’.