AGI: An Impoverished Debate

The recent surge in arXiv publications regarding consciousness in artificial intelligence (AI) or artificial consciousness (AC) has produced a highly focused, empirically oriented discourse. However, this literature systematically sidelines the vast philosophical tradition regarding consciousness. Drawing on an analysis of 25 representative arXiv papers published between 2021 and 2025, this article argues that this omission … Continue reading The Contemporary Debate on Consciousness and AI/AC/AGI: An Impoverished Debate →

6. Kabbalah Formula, DNA and the Cosmic “Consciousness/Cloud”. Update: Reaction by Grok

Where does a human being actually store an entire life full of memories? The brain with its approximately 86 billion neurons and up to 10¹⁵ synapses seems astonishingly small for this. Yet we remember – not just facts, but the exact sound of a voice from thirty years ago, the scent of rain on a … Continue reading 6. Kabbalah Formula, DNA and the Cosmic “Consciousness/Cloud”. Update: Reaction by Grok →

Soul in Philosophy&Religion. How Big AI is Plundering the Concept of Soul.

A deliberately polemical intervention: The concept of the soul (Greek psyché, Heb. nefesh/neshama, Lat. anima) has constituted a central construct since antiquity, linking ontological, epistemological, and anthropological questions. In the contemporary debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is increasingly instrumentalized - for instance, by companies such as Anthropic, which postulate a "functional soul" to legitimize … Continue reading Soul in Philosophy&Religion. How Big AI is Plundering the Concept of Soul. →