The Impossibility of Artificial Imagination: A Question of Genuine Consciousness
Elements November 10, 2007 Huy Trinh
Is it possible to create genuine consciousness, artificial intelligence? This paper will examine this question through the philosophical understanding of imagination. Imagination is the creative faculty that not only separates man from beast but also allows man to recognize himself, and it helps him to see beyond his immediate being. Without imagination, man is blind to future possibility and...