{"id":285,"date":"2016-10-14T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artificialbrain.xyz\/?p=285"},"modified":"2016-11-05T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T09:35:02","slug":"artificial-intelligence-and-the-metaphysics-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/artificial-intelligence-and-the-metaphysics-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence and the Metaphysics of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">Ray Kurzweil and others have suggested that computers will very soon exhibit Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). AGI implies that the systems will not be domain-specific (like chess-playing systems) but can adapt to a wide range of contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">Few would dispute that these systems will solve problems which unaided humans could only solve by using their intelligence, and that the AGI systems will often be faster and more accurate. If one wants to call this ability \u201cintelligence,\u201d then doubtless AGI systems are intelligent. But this impressive progress does nothing to bridge the chasm between computers and the metaphysics of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">The human mind has a number of intrinsic characteristics, such as subjectivity, intentionality, teleology, and rationality, which a computer can only simulate. If one defines \u201cintelligence\u201d in terms of a subject\u2019s capacity to seek out and acquire knowledge of the real world, then I see no reason to think that the most sophisticated AGI system is a substantial advance on a pocket calculator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dv18mjyUAnU\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">Angus Menuge, PhD- Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University Wisconsin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">Angus Menuge is professor of philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin and is the president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. His research interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, apologetics, and C. S. Lewis. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Diploma in Christian Apologetics from the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism and Human Rights, Strasbourg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">He is editor of C. S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands, Christ and Culture in Dialogue, Reading God&#8217;s Worldand of Legitimizing Human Rights (forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">He is author of Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">His most recent work focuses on libertarian free will and the creative powers of agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 18px;\">http:\/\/www.epsociety.org\/library\/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=43<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Kurzweil and others have suggested that computers will very soon exhibit Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). 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