This paper explores the distinction between human consciousness and mechanical “thought” in the contemporary networked world. It argues that artificial intelligence, despite its capacity for complex data processing and language generation, lacks lived experience, temporality, mortality, and existential anxiety; elements that ground human meaning, moral responsibility, and freedom of will....
This article examines the convergences and divergences between the human mind and the AI “mind” by drawing on historical philosophical accounts of the relationship between divine and human intellect. The relation conceived between the divine as creator and the human as created may offer insight into the present and future dynamics between human creators and AI systems. Elements such as...