Artificial Intelligence

The phrase, “ghost in the machine,” was coined by 20th century British philosopher, Gilbert Ryle as a means of characterizing 17th century mathematician and philosopher, René Descartes theory of mind. Descartes theory was an offshoot of the age-old dualism theories that dated back to Plato and Aristotle. His theory—referred to as Cartesian Dualism—distilled dualism into today’s mind-body theories, wherein “consciousness and self-awareness” were mind, and brain was “intelligence.” Descartes further went on to propose that the seat of the soul was the pineal gland.

A friend recently pointed me to Prokofy Neva’s latest commentary regarding the revelation that Ray Kurzweil will be speaking at this year’s SLCC. Being an old-fart technophile, I will say this. Prokofy has some salient points that are well worth considering. Their comparison of Singularity to Fascism is also worth a read, by the way. Both compelled me to take my own history walk down AI-memory lane..