Latest advancements in artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, naturally lead many of us to wonder - can AI think? Not merely compute in increasingly complex ways and astounding volumes but actually understand what it is doing. Can AI have an experience? And how can a thought experiment devised by Avicenna, an 11th-century philosopher, help us here? These … Continue reading Avicenna’s Flying Man and Disembodied Artificial Intelligence
Spreading the Word: History of Medieval Philosophy – Talk on Avicenna
Ibn Sina, or Avicenna as he is known by the Latinized version of his name, was an Islamic polymath and peripatetic philosopher (influenced by Aristotelian philosophy) widely recognized as one of the leading thinkers in the medieval period. His influence spread both in the Islamic world and in the Latin West. Here is a very … Continue reading Spreading the Word: History of Medieval Philosophy – Talk on Avicenna
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