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 →

How Big AI is plundering the concept of Truth

Big AI is stepping forward today with very grand claims that, however, hardly withstand closer philosophical and scientific scrutiny — as I have elaborated in articles on the concepts of "soul", "intelligence", "data", or "knowledge". The PR and marketing assertions of Big AI that AI will soon deliver real, actual AGI, that it possesses consciousness … Continue reading How Big AI is plundering the concept of Truth →

Data, Dream, and Quale: 12 Predicates on Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy. position 2

English follows German 1. Die Wahrheit einer Aussage ist nicht an ihre Begrifflichkeit alleine (sic!) gebunden. 2. Alle Daten* sind 4-dimensional: Quale (Intuition), Substanz (Sinne), Form (Logik) und Quantum (Traum). 3. Es ist bisher nur die Form computerisiert. 4. Alle Dimensionen zu erfassen und zu verarbeiten, kann nur die Qualität Quantencomputer. 5. Daten sind nur … Continue reading Data, Dream, and Quale: 12 Predicates on Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy. position 2 →