Artificial Intelligence

While artificial intelligence has yet to realize its often dramatic promises, the development of brain science has led thinkers to prioritize the mind over the body as the center of the self. “Is the ‘society of mind’ trying to colonize the societies of body and emotion?” asks 3 Quarks Daily. “Why ‘artificial intelligence,’ after all, and not an ‘artificial identity’ or ‘personality’? The name itself reveals a bias. Aren’t we confusing computation with cognition and cognition with identity? Is there really a little being in our brains, or contiguous with our brains, driving the body?”