Tracing Meaning Through Space and Time
In 1965 the mathematician I. J. Good wrote a short paper with a startling idea. If we ever built a machine that could out-think us, he argued, it could also design a better machine than itself — and that machine a better one still. The result would be an “intelligence explosion,” and the first such…
AI and God are distinguished mainly by origin, nature, authority, consciousness, and limits. AI is a created technology. It is built by humans, trained on data, run on hardware, and limited by design, energy, information, and programming. Even very advanced AI does not inherently possess divine authority, moral perfection, omniscience, or self-existence. It can simulate…
Introduction The distinction between intelligence and consciousness is a philosophical, scientific, and technological puzzle that has sparked debate for centuries. Intelligence, generally defined as the ability to learn, reason, and solve problems, is now increasingly seen in machines and artificial systems. Consciousness, on the other hand, involves subjective experience—what it is like to feel, to…
The other day I had a discussion with chatGPT on that subject. Since I often see parallels between outer and inner reality. Dual-Aspect Monism is a metaphysical theory about the relationship between mind and matter. It suggests that both are not fundamentally separate substances (as in dualism), nor is one reducible to the other (as…
