Artificial consciousness

A popular theme in many works of fiction includes machines overthrowing and either ruling over or attempting to eradicate humanity. The 2014 film, Ex Machina, takes a very different approach from the more popular depiction. The approach is more intellectual and psychological, regarding the concept of artificial intelligence. Instead of the general plot of, “humankind needs to be saved from the machines,” it deals with defining consciousness and what it means to be human. In Kevin Kelly’s essay, “The Three Breakthroughs that have finally unleashed AI on the World” he talks about how AI will help better define what it is to be human. In his essay, he says the most effective AI will not be conscience. Consciousness will make AI less efficient at their jobs. As an example he includes, “We want our self driving cars to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage” (Kelly, 6). Ava, in the film, did not really do anything; she had no function. She had no purpose, except to exist, but, at the same time, her one goal was to be free. This…

Nagel gives us the idea that there is a consciousness in most living things, and that this is not reducible to physical characteristics. In “What is it like it be a bat?”, Nagel identifies that each organism has ‘something that it is like to be that organism’, otherwise known as the ‘subjective character’ of experience. He argues that this subjective experience is not able to be captured by any theories that attempt to reduce the mind to the body. This is because it is impossible to describe the…

I argue that you can’t prove that other consciousness exist, because you can’t see them. And even if in the future we were able to see another person’s subjective experience, we wouldn’t be able to tell that that being was originally conscious to begin with; you would only have the idea that there is a possibility it exists. Many philosophers argue that because we observe people acting and behaving in ways that we do, that they must have a consciousness. But if that was the way to perceive…

plagued with a self-paralysing consciousness. These pressures halted their conscious creative ability and influenced their artistic vision, consequently jeopardising the quality of their work. When looking at the Poet and their art form, it is interesting to explore the intermediate struggles of the creative process, and how the Poet is confined to their personal and artistic boundaries. Samuel Coleridge, an isolated speculative individual was…

Body and Mind: The Same and Different Thought. Consciousness. Knowledge. All aspects of the human mind that remain one of the greatest phenomenon, both philosophically and scientifically. Many have postulated its complexity and whether its relationship with the physical world is spiritual or mechanical, but even in the 21st century, questions remain. Somehow, our mind has developed into this complex system that, through electrical impulses, is able to manipulate the physical world. Some…

Locke was a philosopher who claimed that personal identity was independent of all substances, including immaterial substances. Locke says that we continue to be the same person over time if we have the same conscious experience over our lifespan, meaning psychological continuity is the criterion for personal identity. He actually has three different criteria for the continuity of people: psychological continuity, meaning the person at the later time is psychologically continuous of the person at…

This fascination is due to computer systems becoming more integrated with our lives. Technological society is coming to the point where personal information assistance is becoming more and more evident. But to argue the extended is part of cognition one must show that cognition is at least partly constituted in the extended. I will look at some of the articles dealing with this subject and show that what is presented in of itself has no intentionality. The trait of all living things is that…

the information of the former, self-functioning, natural human brain is uploaded onto the computer it is able to mimic thoughts, preferences, and behavioral patterns that the humans that had those brains once had. This simulated consciousness is called the “Nu-Me” and it has abilities to avoid the effects of aging since old or damaged parts can easily be replaced. Philosophers Rene Descartes and John Locke would have plenty to say about the identity of the Nu-Me and it’s ability to have a mind…

The left hemisphere cannot testify on the rights behalf either, they are separated, and the right brain could be a completely conscious mute. Verbal confirmation is not valid evidence of consciousness, and if the right brain was autonomous then removing the function of the left brain would cause the patient to become an automaton. The right hemisphere is also capable of behaving in ways that are supportive of consciousness, for example, using plastic letters to answer questions and being able to…

well-developed brains or entities of artificial intelligence may possess characteristics we might subscribe to what it means to be a person. However, then justifying…