PS to my first comment: I think this article can fruitfully be read in conjunction with the last one, 'Can We Save Morality's Reputation"? by Petrica Nitoaia.
Great article. Lots of food for thought. I hadn't thought of AI in that way, mainly because I know nothing about it. I guess the difficulty would be asking the right question - e.g. What is the nature of the cosmos? Do humans share that nature? What is the nature of human consciousness? I am conscious that the great computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy answered 44, or was it 42, to a similar question, though! May not have been a bad answer given that the cosmos of Plato's Timaeus was structured on a mathematical pattern based on oneness, twoness, threeness, and fourness!
PS to my first comment: I think this article can fruitfully be read in conjunction with the last one, 'Can We Save Morality's Reputation"? by Petrica Nitoaia.
Great article. Lots of food for thought. I hadn't thought of AI in that way, mainly because I know nothing about it. I guess the difficulty would be asking the right question - e.g. What is the nature of the cosmos? Do humans share that nature? What is the nature of human consciousness? I am conscious that the great computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy answered 44, or was it 42, to a similar question, though! May not have been a bad answer given that the cosmos of Plato's Timaeus was structured on a mathematical pattern based on oneness, twoness, threeness, and fourness!