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Originally Posted by september  It's the other question where dualism tends to get into some trouble ("If so, how does it (or does it?) interact meaningfully with the body?"). That's the hard question - literally. |
Not a philosophical question in my opinion; it's one for science to answer eventually. I reject the usual false dichotomy that says the body is real and the mind is supernatural--consciousness, even if not material, is not supernatural. Consciousness is an entity that exists, and as such, even if it is not material, it is a natural phenomenon. The philosophical question here is "Do I have volitional control of myself?" and the answer is a resounding yes--it's axiomatic.
We will eventually find out the scientific explanation, but not as long as the scientists are determinists who reject volition.
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This stuff most often comes up with AI - what necessitates consciousness? Is it a strictly human phenomenon? What is it contributing to our existence that an extremely complicated algorithm couldn't? Turing, one of the founders of our modern digital computers, has much to say about how we can't be sure computers couldn't be conscious someday, simply because in a sense, we are computers - just human ones. John Searle practically decimated research funding into AI with his Chinese Room Argument, basically saying that one can process information and still not understand it - however, this argument is filled with holes...
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Do you have any key terms that relate AI to philosophy that I can learn about? To be honest, I'm much more familiar with the older questions of Western philosophy and not really up on AI.