THE PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUE IN MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS

2009 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 155-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIOTR BOLTUC
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Machine Consciousness

scholarly journals Nonconscious Cognitive Suffering: Considering Suffering Risks of Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Philosophies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Steven Umbrello ◽  
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Machine Consciousness

Strong arguments have been formulated that the computational limits of disembodied artificial intelligence (AI) will, sooner or later, be a problem that needs to be addressed. Similarly, convincing cases for how embodied forms of AI can exceed these limits makes for worthwhile research avenues. This paper discusses how embodied cognition brings with it other forms of information integration and decision-making consequences that typically involve discussions of machine cognition and similarly, machine consciousness. N. Katherine Hayles’s novel conception of nonconscious cognition in her analysis of the human cognition-consciousness connection is discussed in relation to how nonconscious cognition can be envisioned and exacerbated in embodied AI. Similarly, this paper offers a way of understanding the concept of suffering in a way that is different than the conventional sense of attributing it to either a purely physical state or a conscious state, instead of grounding at least a type of suffering in this form of cognition.

Cicero: On Fate

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W. Sharples
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Free Will ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Latin Culture ◽  
Consolation Of Philosophy

Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe, which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day. Cicero's treatise On Fate (De Fato), though surviving only in a fragmentary and mutilated state, records contributions to the discussion of a central philosophical issue, that of free will and determinism, which are comparable in importance to those of twentieth-century philosophers and indeed sometimes anticipate them. Study of the treatise has been hindered by the lack of a combined Latin text and English translation based on a clear understanding of the arguments; this edition is intended to meet this need. The last book of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy (Philosophiae Consolationis) is linked with Cicero's treatise by its theme, the relation of divine foreknowledge to human freedom. The book presents Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.

scholarly journals PHENOMENOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE OF A MIND AND OPERATIONAL ARCHITECTONICS OF THE BRAIN: THE UNIFIED METASTABLE CONTINUUM

2009 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW A. FINGELKURTS ◽  
ALEXANDER A. FINGELKURTS ◽  
CARLOS F. H. NEVES
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Computing ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Brain Diseases ◽  
Machine Consciousness ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Conscious Level ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Activity Organization

In our contribution we will observe phenomenal architecture of a mind and operational architectonics of the brain and will show their intimate connectedness within a single integrated metastable continuum. The notion of operation of different complexity is the fundamental and central one in bridging the gap between brain and mind: it is precisely by means of this notion that it is possible to identify what at the same time belongs to the phenomenal conscious level and to the neurophysiological level of brain activity organization, and what mediates between them. Implications for linguistic semantics, self-organized distributed computing algorithms, artificial machine consciousness, and diagnosis of dynamic brain diseases will be discussed briefly.

scholarly journals Palamas and Florensky: The Metaphysics of the Heart in Patristic and Russian Philosophical Tradition

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Justyna Kroczak
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
Russian Religious Thought

Тhis paper focuses on the philosophical issue known as the metaphysics of the heart within Orthodox Christianity – both Russian and Byzantie versions. Russian religious thought is based on patristic tradition. Influences and connections can be seen in Florensky’s philosophy of All-Unity. This Russian philosopher was highly inspired by Gregory Palamas, fourteenth-century Eastern Church. These two Orthodox thinkers, mainly their metaphysics of heart are objects of interests.

Conflict in the Expansion of Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-174
Author(s):  
Tongdong Bai
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter argues that early Confucians were aware of the conflict between the private and the public, but their solution was to identify and develop the constructive aspect of the private and use what was cultivated from the private to suppress the conflict. Most late modern and contemporary Western liberal thinkers have switched their focus and are primarily concerned with how to protect the private against intrusions from the public. In contrast, early Confucians and Plato (in the Republic) were primarily concerned with intrusions to the public good from the private. But both Plato and modern liberals insist on the sheer divide between the private and the public. To look further into how early Confucians addressed the issue of the conflict between the private and the public may shed light on the universal philosophical issue of the private versus the public. With a fuller understanding of the Confucian rationale on this issue, the chapter then applies the Confucian idea of expanding care to other political and moral issues.

Plato’s Use of Shadow-painting as a Metaphor for Deceptive Speech

2018 ◽  
pp. 265-272
Author(s):  
Zacharoula Petraki
Keyword(s):  
Sense Perception ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Contrary to the traditional viewpoint which interpreted Plato’s stance towards poetry as derogatory, more recently scholars have rightly argued that Plato’s treatment of painting is too complicated to be dismissed as negative only. Painting is for Plato a well-adapted analogy which allows him to discuss highly intricate philosophical issues, as, for example, the relationship of the forms with our earthly realm of sense-perception. It also provides him with useful vocabulary to conduct his philosophical investigations. In this paper, I focus on Plato’s employment of one particular pictorial technique, that of shadow-painting (skiagraphia). I argue that this innovative 5th century technique served Plato as a metaphor for discussing the intricate philosophical issue of opposition and antithesis (ta enantia). In specific terms, Plato associates the technique of skiagraphia with the poets, sophists and the unsophisticated non-philosophical majority.

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