What if the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind Thesis are true? According to S. Orestis Palermos, in Cybor Rights, the acceptance of these theses implies a reconsideration of the way in which we understand mental privacy, mental integrity, and personal integrity. However, the reconsideration of these concepts could generate an undue assimilation between our thoughts and our...
Yuval Noah Harari warns of a very pessimistic future for our species: essentially, that it may be superseded by non-conscious Artificial Intelligence that can do anything we can and more. This assumes that we are physically instantiated algorithms that can be improved on in all respects. On such an assumption, our labor will become economically worthless once AI reaches a certain level. This...
To the extent that the performance of embodied and situated cognitive agents is predicated on fore- thought, such agents must remember, and learn from, the past to predict the future. In complex, non-stationary environments, such learning is facilitated by an intrinsic motivation to seek novelty. A significant part of an agent’s identity is thus constituted by its remembered distilled...