Sublime

Il voulait toujours réfléchir à un point plus difficile et déconcertant : quelque chose qui n’avait pas encore été exploré. Selon son étudiant (puis traducteur) Dorion Cairns, Husserl disait que son but était toujours de travailler sur les sujets paraissant les plus douloureux et incertains – ceux qui l’emplissaient le plus d’angoisse et de

American philosopher John Searle (born in 1932) argued recently that Watson is not capable of thinking. Citing his “Chinese room” thought experiment (which I will discuss further in chapter 11), he states that Watson is only manipulating symbols and does not understand the meaning of those symbols. Actually, Searle is not describing Watson

It is the absence of practical reason, of intelligence harnessed to pursue diverse and shifting and self-generated ends, that (currently) distinguishes the truly impressive Watson from ordinary sane people. If and when Watson ever reaches the level of sophistication where it can enter fully into the human practice of reason-giving and

Au XXe siècle, la philosophie de Bergson et la phénoménologie de Husserl se présentent moins comme des systèmes que comme des méthodes pour transformer notre perception du monde. Et le mouvement de pensée inauguré par Heidegger et poursuivi par l’existentialisme veut, théoriquement, en principe, engager la liberté et l’action de l’homme dans le

the individual;

Heidegger observed that as our tools and equipment change, we change: the printing press changed us; the airplane changed us. Being is not so much eternal as temporal, but it moves through human experience at a primal level.

submit that this is what the real, no‑bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.⁠6 Wallace’s

Kurzweil seems to believe that consciousness can be put to the side. His book How to Create a Mind is the most systematic exposition of AI and, like his masterpiece, The Singularity Is Near, full of original insights. But on the issue of consciousness both books plunge into circularity, merely asserting that when a machine is fully intelligent it