Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays
Consider how many of our thoughts and thinking are directed toward our body and its survival, security, nutrition, and image, not to mention affection, sexuality, and reproduction. Many, if not most, of the goals we attempt to advance using our brains have to do with our bodies: protecting them, providing them with fuel, making them attractive, mak... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
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We in the West are used to thinking of the mind and the body as separate. But a burgeoning field called “embodied cognition” is demonstrating that thinking is actually a full-body experience.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
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Past philosophers have taken this observation and run with it, arguing that minds and brains are fundamentally distinct and separate phenomena. This is the view the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.”1 But modern scientists and philosophers who have rejected dualism haven’t necessarily replaced it with a better
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
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If our minds can be recreated by a machine, then maybe our thinking is more robotic than we’d like to admit. And that’s a reality that shakes us right down to our human core.
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
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Computer scientists (then and now) shared the fantasy that human thought could be treated as entirely computable
Fair Warning — Real Life
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To return to the issue of subjectivity, consider: is the reinstantiated mind the same consciousness as the person we just scanned? But it is not easily resolved, or even readily understood. How do we distinguish a process that is conscious from one that just acts as if it is conscious?We can’t simply ask it. If it says “Hey I’m conscious,” does tha... See more
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