A highly developed AI must have a soul.
Renowned inventor and futurologist Ray Kurzweil gave an interview to Silicon.com, in which he shared his thoughts and singularity, Artificial Intelligence and the technologies of the future. Among other things, it is of interest to think about whether the future AI may have a “soul”. Ray Kurzweil is sure that a highly developed AI simply must have a soul, and we will have no choice but to acknowledge his right to self-consciousness. The argument is under habrakat.
“Soul is a synonym for self-consciousness,” replies Kurzweil, “and if we want to understand where self-consciousness comes from, we must agree that this is more than just the sum of the components of [ emerging property , i.e. the result of a qualitative leap at some point in the progressive evolutionary development of the system]. Modern methods and tools for scanning the human brain allow us to study it in the smallest detail, and we do not find there anything that can be identified as a soul - there are just a bunch of neurons and they are difficult to organize, but no self-awareness is visible. That is why it is more than just the sum of the components of a very complex system, it is something that can reflect. And if you want to create a system with the same properties, the same level of complexity, it also must be something more than just the sum of its components, and it is not just an abstraction, because these future organisms ... will have consciousness.
You cannot easily draw a line between people and artificial organisms, because there will be many biological people with processors in the brain, and these implants can add more intelligence to a person than the rest of the brain. So it will not be entirely clear where biological intelligence ends, and where artificial intelligence begins ... [So] we will recognize the right to self-awareness even for those creatures that do not have biological organs at all, even if they are completely artificial organisms: they will similar to humans, they will have something similar to self-awareness, and we will consider them animate beings, and this will not be a scientific conclusion. ”
“Soul is a synonym for self-consciousness,” replies Kurzweil, “and if we want to understand where self-consciousness comes from, we must agree that this is more than just the sum of the components of [ emerging property , i.e. the result of a qualitative leap at some point in the progressive evolutionary development of the system]. Modern methods and tools for scanning the human brain allow us to study it in the smallest detail, and we do not find there anything that can be identified as a soul - there are just a bunch of neurons and they are difficult to organize, but no self-awareness is visible. That is why it is more than just the sum of the components of a very complex system, it is something that can reflect. And if you want to create a system with the same properties, the same level of complexity, it also must be something more than just the sum of its components, and it is not just an abstraction, because these future organisms ... will have consciousness.
You cannot easily draw a line between people and artificial organisms, because there will be many biological people with processors in the brain, and these implants can add more intelligence to a person than the rest of the brain. So it will not be entirely clear where biological intelligence ends, and where artificial intelligence begins ... [So] we will recognize the right to self-awareness even for those creatures that do not have biological organs at all, even if they are completely artificial organisms: they will similar to humans, they will have something similar to self-awareness, and we will consider them animate beings, and this will not be a scientific conclusion. ”
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/45215/
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