Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Philosophy Wire: Create life. By letting it die…

The algorithms that underlie much of the modern world have grown so complex that we can’t always predict what they’ll do. Iyad Rahwan’s radical idea: The best way to understand them is to observe their behavior in the wild. [1] We create robots. We are proud to bring life into inanimate matter. Believing consciousness is about thinking. Believing thinking is about thinking. And believing pure matter as we define it can have anything to do with the above. Iyad is wrong that we have yet succeeded in doing so. But he is right in another thing. When we do create life, we should let it go. For it is only the possibility of death that gives life any meaning. From Zeus to Cronus, from God to humans, one can never truly create anything. Until he lets it alone to die…

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