Week 14

Class discussion on AI. This idea will always be a little disturbing to me. Why do we need to create a computer that can think like, or better than a human being. Guess I am not very progressive in this regard and perhaps a bit of a technophobe. Didn't any of these people at Vicarious corporation see the Terminator and see the parallel to the building of sky-net.

An artificial intelligence robot would undoubtedly still be controlled by humans to some degree. This is where the idea of AI and dolphins in captivity intersect. This reductionist world view of modern science is all turned around, we are enslaving the dolphins and freeing the computers. If the god lord had intended for dolphins to be in captivity then the oceans would have been made a lot smaller. It is most certainly not for us to decide who lives and who dies and how.

We are but a small byproduct of autopoietic universe that gave birth to us and desperately in search of life or the source of life. The very nature of desire keeps us striving always for the future seeking on and on. I like to contemplate that the same energy of the universe that makes the trees grow also beats my human heart, with this I remember to take a step back and appreciate some of that is.