What do you think of this? In an article in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago, Princeton Neuroscience professor Michael S.A. Graziano asserts “the day is coming when we will be able to scan our entire consciousness into a computer . . . .” The title of the piece asks rhetorically “will […]
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AI and Consciousness
Advances in artificial intelligence are of interest because of what they may say about consciousness. If a machine can acquire human-like sentience, does that mean consciousness is entirely an emergent property of brain functioning? If so, it would arguably eliminate human consciousness as a phenomenon that proves God’s existence. All the more reason, then, that we […]
Read more...“Artificial Intelligence”
What the words mean It seems like there’s a new article or book almost weekly on the coming impact of Artificial Intelligence. The phrase, “artificial intelligence,” has always been puzzling to me, however, and I think we should stop and consider it, the more so if the phenomenon it denotes is actually introducing a disruptive […]
Read more...Chappie
You know the word “chap” as a British-ism, like “bloke” or “mate,” a casual reference to a male acquaintance. The diminutive form, “chappie,” would suggest an added level of bonhomie. The words (“chap” and “chappie”) have currency in South Africa, which, in futuristic vision, is the setting of a 2015 movie titled Chappie. In the movie, the sobriquet is […]
Read more...Review (Part Four): The Experience of God—Being Consciousness Bliss, by David Bentley Hart
Consciousness The mechanistic vision of reality holds that material forces are inherently mindless; intrinsically devoid of purpose. Consciousness, on the other hand, is everything that matter is not: directed, purposive, essentially rational. Materialism and the fact of consciousness cannot be reconciled. The materialist point of view means making no accommodation for any spiritual reality. But […]
Read more...Review: Ex Machina
Sci-fi movies with whirring gadgets and robots and what-not might be fascinating for techno-philes. Ex Machina is not such a movie, however. Gadgetry is not the point. You’re meant to focus on every word of dialogue, by man and machine. Sure, there is tension building, and there are plot twists. But this movie is about […]
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