When things are in your mind, are they also in your body? If yes, is your body anything more than a physical container for your mind? If not, how can there be things like painful memories, hurtful words or wounds of history? Western traditions of thought have a long history of contrasting mind and body. … Continue reading Thoughts on Embodied Understanding and Carnal Hermeneutics
Spreading the Word: Human Search for Meaning and Artificial Intelligence
Can we create a human-like artificial intelligence? It is a profoundly philosophical question before being a purely technical one. If it was just a matter of technological possibility, I suspect we would have done it already. However powerful and advanced, disembodied computation is not the sort of ‘human-like’ intelligence that we - actual living embodied people - … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Human Search for Meaning and Artificial Intelligence
Avicenna’s Flying Man and Disembodied Artificial Intelligence
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: Embodiment and Philosophy of the Body
Is the body the foundation of philosophy? Of anything, really?
Spreading the Word: Mind-Body Unity
This Friday I share with you a short video on the mind-body unity. It is a hugely important and vastly underestimated truth about us, humans - we are not simply minds in machines, our bodies are not just tools attached to the brain, we are, each of us, a complex unity of a constant mind-body … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Mind-Body Unity
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