Artificial Forms of Life
Philosophies October 27, 2023 Sebastian Sunday Grève
The logical problem of 'strong' AI—whether artificial intelligence can be genuinely intelligent and conscious—reduces to whether an artificial form of life is possible, which is paradoxical because it asks whether an unnatural form of nature is possible. The paper argues that machines can share the human form of life and thereby acquire human mindedness, including intelligence, consciousness, and sentience, in the same way a human being typically does.