Is Thinking Generated by the Brain?
Implications for AI
Image: Aristotle (384-322 BC), Collection of “Centurium Statues” at Southern Utah University
About the Webinar
Thinking. Four arguments for thinking not being generated by the brain: 1. Concepts are not physical and are perceived through thinking; 2. Determining the next thought; 3. Imagining some physical action; 4. Non-physical models determine organic forms.
Implications for AI: Computers will never think as humans do; traditional programming vs. programs generated through machine “learning” (ML) programs; the impossibility of knowing how a ML program works, and its dangers when used to replace human decisions.
Suggested Reading
Inner Experiences of Evolution
5 lectures in Berlin, October 31, 1911–December 5, 1911 (CW 132)
In this most remarkable and in many ways unique course of lectures, Rudolf Steiner describes the inner experience of the states of consciousness known as the Saturn, Sun, Moon, and Earth stages of evolution.
