It’s not that Krishnamurti saw the mind as anything close to a computer. While a computational functionalist might argue that building a mind is as simple as building a machine, Krishnamurti believed our minds are so much more. But he worried we were selling ourselves short, letting our minds get stuck in mechanical routines like memory and knowled

The blind spot of AI is that consciousness does not emerge from thought; it is the source of it. As Leibnitz, imagining a computer blown up to the size of a building, observed in the seventeenth century, inside the machine (the determinist scheme), you find cogs and gears but no cognition.

It turns out that computers are particularly adept at the tasks that we humans find most difficult: crunching equations, solving logical propositions, and other modes of abstract thought. What artificial intelligence finds most difficult are the sensory perceptive tasks and motor skills that we perform unconsciously: walking, drinking from a cup, s