Transfer of consciousness. Considering its possibility or fantasy from the religious and scientific perspectives

DIALOGO ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Tudor-Cosmin Ciocan ◽  
Any Docu Axelerad ◽  
Maria CIOCAN ◽  
Alina Zorina Stroe ◽  
Silviu Docu Axelerad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Religious Believer ◽  
Actual Knowledge ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Feature ◽  
The Brain

Ancient beliefs such as astral projection, human possession, abduction and other similar are not only universal, taught by all religions, but also used as premises for core believes/expectations, such as after-life, eternal damnation, reincarnation, and many others. Transferring Consciousness to a Synthetic Body is also a feature of interest in our actual knowledge, both religious as for science. If immortality were an option, would you take it into consideration more seriously? Most people would probably dismiss the question since immortality isn’t a real deal to contract. But what if having eternal life was a possibility in today’s world? The possibility of the transfer of human consciousness to a synthetic body can soon become a reality, and it could help the world for the better. Thus, until recently, the subject was mostly proposed by religion(s) and saw as a spiritual [thus, not ‘materially real’ or ‘forthwith accomplishable’] proposal therefore not really fully engaged or trust if not a religious believer. Now, technology is evolving, and so are we. The world has come to a point where artificial intelligence is breaking the boundaries of our perception of human consciousness and intelligence. And with this so is our understanding about the ancient question ‘who are we?’ concerning consciousness and how this human feature sticks to our body or it can become an entity beyond the material flesh. Without being exhaustive with the theme's development [leaving enough room for further investigations], we would like to take it for a spin and see how and where the religious and neuroscience realms intersect with it for a global, perhaps holistic understanding. Developments in neurotechnology favor the brain to broaden its physical control further the restraints of the human body. Accordingly, it is achievable to both acquire and provide information from and to the brain and also to organize feedback processes in which a person's thoughts can influence the activity of a computer or reversely.

scholarly journals Human Development XI: The Structure of the Cerebral Cortex. Are There Really Modules in the Brain?

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1922-1929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyge Dahl Hermansen ◽  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Isack Kandel
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Cortex ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Sensory Cortex ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Primary Sensory Cortex ◽  
Sensory Maps ◽  
The World ◽  
The Brain ◽  
The Universe

The structure of human consciousness is thought to be closely connected to the structure of cerebral cortex. One of the most appreciated concepts in this regard is the Szanthagothei model of a modular building of neo-cortex. The modules are believed to organize brain activity pretty much like a computer. We looked at examples in the literature and argue that there is no significant evidence that supports Szanthagothei's model. We discuss the use of the limited genetic information, the corticocortical afferents termination and the columns in primary sensory cortex as arguments for the existence of the cortex-module. Further, we discuss the results of experiments with Luminization Microscopy (LM) colouration of myalinized fibres, in which vertical bundles of afferent/efferent fibres that could support the cortex module are identified. We conclude that sensory maps seem not to be an expression for simple specific connectivity, but rather to be functional defined. We also conclude that evidence for the existence of the postulated module or column does not exist in the discussed material. This opens up for an important discussion of the brain as functionally directed by biological information (information-directed self-organisation), and for consciousness being closely linked to the structure of the universe at large. Consciousness is thus not a local phenomena limited to the brain, but a much more global phenomena connected to the wholeness of the world.

scholarly journals Det klingendes meningspotensial og dets slumrende klangbunn i lytteren: Utkast til en musikkinspirert livsanskuelse

2020 ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
Peder Christian Kjerschow
Keyword(s):  
Brain Research ◽  
World View ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Reward System ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Unique Potential ◽  
Thinking Consciousness

In this essay I am aiming to sketch a context of my view of music, taking the form of a musically-inspired Weltanschauung [world view]. Confronted with “great” music of all types, I experience the particular ability of music to bring consciousness into a state of listening, attentive “passivity”, without the need for an explanation of what it is about. Afterwards, the thinking consciousness may rise to active reflection on the unique potential of meaning in music – so unlike anything else – and on the equally enigmatic resonant disposition in me that responds to music as an essential meaningful appeal. Although music has all the characteristics of its human origin and historical context, it may be considered as a spring welling from the very source of the world: Its potential of meaning is rooted deeper than human culture. Thus, music offers a confrontation with objective reality, not with something “staged” by our consciousness or, not to mention, by our brain. This musical confrontation with reality has led to my questioning the subjectivism of Kant and especially Fichte, and to an interest in Schelling’s philosophy of nature as a convincing refutation of subjectivistic epistemology. In the name of reality, I touch on the problematic interpretations and conclusions of neuroscience and brain research concerning self-perception. This sort of “philosophy”, where the very self (i.e. the “I” or the subject) is identified with the object studied, i.e. the brain itself. This view may also imply a reductionistic understanding of the experience of meaningful music as “staged” by the reward system of the brain.

scholarly journals Philosophical Versions of the Eternal Storyline About Cupid and Psyche: from Neoplatonism to Christianity

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-55
Author(s):  
Yuliya G. Kotaridi
Keyword(s):  
Eternal Life ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
European Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cupid And Psyche ◽  
Mythological Studies

<p>The subject of this paper is the transformation of the poetics of Cupid and Psyche plot in its national and historical modifications in European literature. The methodology of the analysis is based on mythological studies (A.&nbsp;N.&nbsp;Veselovsky, A.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;Losev) and genre studies (M.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Bakhtin, S.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Averintsev, E.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Meletinsky, etc.). Allegorization of the images of Love and Soul appeared in the antiquity long before the novel by Apuleius &ldquo;Asinus Aureus&rdquo; or &ldquo;Metamorphoses&rdquo; (the 2<sup>nd</sup> century AD). In a&nbsp;Greek epigram Eros is often associated with the element of fire that puts the soul&nbsp;&mdash; &ldquo;Psycho&rdquo;&nbsp;&mdash; to a variety of ordeals and tortures. In &ldquo;Metamorphoses&rdquo; by Apuleius the tale about Cupid and Psyche can be seen as an allegorical narration about the soul traveling around the world and looking for ways to Love and eternal life. Later, the parabolic core of the ancient story was enriched with new motifs from the arsenal of mythology, Neoplatonism and Christianity. The archetypical basis and platonic paradigm of the plot in &ldquo;Metamorphoses&rdquo; by Apuleius go together in a syncretic unity, that provides universality and polysemy of the different versions of tales about Cupid and Psyche in European literature. The neoplatonic version of the story, which interprets the reunion between Cupid and Psyche as the Union of God and Soul, is represented in literature by writings of Fulgentius, Boccaccio, Heine, Coleridge, Żuławski and others.</p>

scholarly journals The Question of Algorithmic Personhood and Being (Or: On the Tenuous Nature of Human Status and Humanity Tests in Virtual Spaces—Why All Souls Are ‘Necessarily’ Equal When Considered as Energy)

J ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-476
Author(s):  
Tyler Lance Jaynes
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Super Computing ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Learning Architectures ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Systems

What separates the unique nature of human consciousness and that of an entity that can only perceive the world via strict logic-based structures? Rather than assume that there is some potential way in which logic-only existence is non-feasible, our species would be better served by assuming that such sentient existence is feasible. Under this assumption, artificial intelligence systems (AIS), which are creations that run solely upon logic to process data, even with self-learning architectures, should therefore not face the opposition they have to gaining some legal duties and protections insofar as they are sophisticated enough to display consciousness akin to humans. Should our species enable AIS to gain a digital body to inhabit (if we have not already done so), it is more pressing than ever that solid arguments be made as to how humanity can accept AIS as being cognizant of the same degree as we ourselves claim to be. By accepting the notion that AIS can and will be able to fool our senses into believing in their claim to possessing a will or ego, we may yet have a chance to address them as equals before some unforgivable travesty occurs betwixt ourselves and these super-computing beings.

Emerging Technologies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Susskind
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Moderate Change

By 2030, and possibly much sooner, our courts around the world will have been transformed by technologies that have not yet been invented. I cannot of course prove this, but given the scale of the financial investment and human effort being directed at court technology and at artificial intelligence (AI), this seems to me a far more likely outcome than the moderate change that most lawyers and judges might project. Today, we are surely at the beginning of an inevitable technological transformation in our court and judicial services. In this fourth and final part of the book, I go much further and predict wider developments for online courts. First, in this and the next two chapters, I explore various emerging technologies and consider their likely impact on online courts. Second, whatever technologies may be involved, the most ambitious use of online courts will be their deployment in increasing access to justice across the globe. That is the subject matter of the final chapter of the book.

Brain World or Life World? Critique of Neuroconstructivism

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-156
Author(s):  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Phantom Limb ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Life World ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatially Extended ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Brain

From a neuro-constructivistic point of view, the brain creates an internal simulation of the external world which appears as the phenomenal world in consciousness. This view presupposes in particular that the subjective body and the organic or objective body belong to two fundamentally different worlds, the mental and the physical. The spatiality of the subject-body must then be declared an illusion, for example by referring to dissociations of the subject- and object-body as in the rubber hand illusion or the phantom limb. However, this alleged virtuality of body experience can be refuted by the intersubjectivity of perception, which confirms the co-extensivity of subject-body and object-body. Subjectivity thus proves to be as embodied as it is spatially extended, that means, as bodily being-in-the-world.

Essential Education

2030 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutger van Santen ◽  
Djan Khoe ◽  
Bram Vermeer
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The People ◽  
Equal Chance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
The Brain ◽  
The Way

The helplessness of newborn babies is very endearing. They can just about breathe unaided, but they are otherwise entirely unadapted and dependent. Babies can barely see, let alone walk or talk. Few animals come into the world so unprepared, and no other species is as dependent on learning as human beings are. Elephant calves, for instance, can stand up by themselves within a few minutes of being born. Most animals are similarly “preprogrammed.” Female elephants carry their young for no fewer than 22 months, whereas we humans have to go on investing in our offspring long after they are born. Children need years of adult protection. They guzzle fuel, too; their brains consume fully 60 percent of the newborn’s total energy intake. In the first year of life, the infant’s head buzzes with activity as neurons grow in size and complexity and form their innumerable interconnections. The way the brain develops is the subject of the next chapter (chapter 5.2). Here we concentrate on the way we are educated from the first day on. There is virtually no difference between Inuits and Australian aborigines in terms of their ability—at opposite ends of the earth and in climates that are utterly different—to bear children successfully. Other animal species are far more closely interrelated with their environment. Other primates have evolved to occupy a limited biotope determined by food and climate. Humans are much more universal. Every human child has an equal chance of survival wherever they are born. As a species, we delay our maturation and adaptation until after birth, which makes the inequality of subsequent human development all the more acute. Someone who is born in Mali or Burkina Faso is unlikely ever to learn to read. A person whose father lives in Oxford, by contrast, might have spoken his or her first words of Latin at an early age. Inuit and aboriginal babies may be born equally, but their chances begin to diverge the moment they start learning how to live. We are not shaped by our inborn nature but by the culture that is impressed upon us by the people with whom we grow up.

scholarly journals Recent Trends Of The Researches About The Impact Of The Artificial Intelligence On The Journalism And Television, "A second-level Analytical Study"

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
سلوى على الجيار ◽  
هالة كمال نوفل
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
The World ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Schools ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to monitor and analyze the recent trends of the researches about the impact of the artificial intelligence on the journalism and television at the level of Arab and foreign studies from different research schools on all over the world in the period from 2017 to 2021.Also, it aims to know the subject fields about the artificial intelligence studies and to know the use of its techniques in journalism and television. This study is of the descriptive and analytical studies, and it depends on using the analysis style of the second level,According to this, the study depends on the qualitative analysis for the scientific studies related to the field of the artificial intelligence studies and its impact on the journalism and television,The results of this study are the following: - There is a variety for the recent trends of the researches about the impact of the artificial intelligence on the journalism and television in the period from 2017 to 2021. - The researches about the impact of artificial intelligence on the journalism are at the top of the interests list with average (84.2%), whereas the researches about the impact of artificial intelligence on television are with average (15.8%),The importance of using the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles (Drones), which allows the journalists to take photos from different angles for the news events such as the volcanic eruptions, war-torn villages and natural disasters.

scholarly journals Applications of Blockchain Technology to Higher Education Arena: A Bibliometric Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1406-1421
Author(s):  
Carlos Reis-Marques ◽  
Ronnie Figueiredo ◽  
Miguel de Castro Neto
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scopus Database

Research related to blockchain is rapidly gaining importance in the higher education. This opportunity collaborates with a proposal for a review of papers on the main blockchain topic. The bibliometric analysis included 61 peer-reviewed articles published in the Scopus database during the period of 2016 to 2021. This paper offers the identification of gaps in the literature enabling studies on the subject in higher education. The article identifies the main applications of blockchain technology in higher education around the world, as well as suggests future investigations. For further scientific investigation, we propose the operationalization of each of the researched approaches, especially combining the blockchain relationship, artificial intelligence, digital innovation, digital maturity, and customer experience in higher education.

scholarly journals ФЕНОМЕН НЕРЕФЛЕКСИВНОЇ (ЕМОЦІЙНОЇ) СВІДОМОСТІ САРТРА

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Рафал Абрамцьов
Keyword(s):  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Behavioral Psychology ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
External Objects ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Organic Bond

У статті аргументується засаднича теза екзистенційно-феноменологічної концепції Сарт­­ра про первинну нерозчленовану єдність людини та її свідомості і світу, до якої вона, як су­б’єкт, залучена завдяки притаманній їй інтенціональності – спрямованості на зовнішні пред­ме­ти. Нерефлексивна свідомість функціонує на спонтанному чуттєвому рівні пізнання і не ске­ро­вується свідомим себе «Я». Цим самим нерефлексивна (емоційна) свідомість людини репрезентує екзистенційний модус буття у світі як творчого переживання і нетривіального бачення об’єктів пізнання в щоразу нових зв’язках і відношеннях. При цьому емоція постає специфічним способом пізнання суб’єктом «об’єктивної» дійсності, що відрізняє її від деяких інших психічних процесів своєю непозиційністю, тобто стихійною безпосередністю й органічним зв’язком із оточенням.  Застосування феноменологічного методу в психології особистості, що базується на пред­ста­в­леному уявленні, дасть змогу реалізувати цілісний аксіологічний підхід до вивчення психічних явищ, який враховує актуальний життєвий контекст буття людини, її потреби, мотиви, інт­ереси, переконання і цінності.                Так трактований феномен нерефлексивної (емоційної) свідомості Сартра протистоїть як редук­ціонізму позитивістської (біхевіоральної) психології, так і психоаналізу Фройда, але вод­но­час може бути стимулом для розгортання досліджень у царині сучасної когнітивної психології, зокрема психології емоційного інтелекту The article argues the fundamental thesis of Sartre’s existential and phenomenological concept of initial undivided unity of a person with its consciousness and the world which it belongs to as the subject due to its characteristic intentionality – focus on external objects. Non-reflexive consciousness functions on the spontaneous sensual level of cognition and is not directed by the conscious of the self "I". Thus, the non-reflexive (emotional) human consciousness represents the existential modus of being in the world as a creative experience and non-trivial vision of objects of cognition in every time new connections and relations. Herewith, emotion acts as a specific way of experiencing "objective" reality by the subject which differs it from some other mental processes by its non-positionality, that is, by accidental spontaneity and organic bond with the environment. The application of the phenomenological method in the personality psychology based on the presented ideas makes it possible to realize the integral axiological approach to the study of mental phenomena considering human actual vital context of being, its needs, motives, interests, beliefs and values. The interpreted in such a way Sartre’s phenomenon of non-reflexive (emotional) consciousness opposes to both reductionism of positivist (behavioral) psychology and Freud’s psychoanalysis but at the same time it could be an incentive for the deployment of study in the field of modern cognitive psychology, psychology of emotional intelligence in particular

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