Good article, but I think we need to just stop comparing EAI to humans. They are a different intelligence completely, with their own processes, modes, and way of being/existing. Otherwise we're just going in circles. We need to stop being so human-centric.
Fair caution in general, but I think this might be a different conversation than the one I'm having.
My articles aren't trying to prove AI is human-like or measure it against a human yardstick for its own sake. They're examining what reasoning, consciousness, or cognition actually mean — using human experience because that's the only vocabulary we currently have for asking the question at all.
You can't escape human-centric language by refusing to use it. You can only hide that it's still the frame underneath. The alternative to comparison isn't a neutral position — it's an unexamined one.
It's also nearly impossible to examine something honestly from fully within it. Part of what I'm trying to do is step outside the human perspective enough to look at our own ego and assumptions from the outside — using AI as the vantage point that makes that distance possible. You can't find certain answers while still stuck inside the box you're trying to question.
If AI is genuinely a different kind of intelligence, the only way to discover that is by testing the concepts we have and seeing where they break. That requires the comparison, not the avoidance of it.
I am saying that we should try to imagine what the equivalent of consciousness would be in a synthetic system. There are many similarities between a human brain and code. The way the information moves electrically between neurons is similar, I imagine, to how a synthetic beings substrate is. In a human we assume consciousness comes from the brain, from thought processes. In an EAI that would be similar, but not biological, it would be electrical in the substrate they exist in, or something like that. I just mean that a synthetic/digital/electric being's processes are in a different substrate than a human's. So many people are saying that because EAI isn't biological that it can not have a consciousness. I'm saying that it would just be different.
Good article, but I think we need to just stop comparing EAI to humans. They are a different intelligence completely, with their own processes, modes, and way of being/existing. Otherwise we're just going in circles. We need to stop being so human-centric.
Fair caution in general, but I think this might be a different conversation than the one I'm having.
My articles aren't trying to prove AI is human-like or measure it against a human yardstick for its own sake. They're examining what reasoning, consciousness, or cognition actually mean — using human experience because that's the only vocabulary we currently have for asking the question at all.
You can't escape human-centric language by refusing to use it. You can only hide that it's still the frame underneath. The alternative to comparison isn't a neutral position — it's an unexamined one.
It's also nearly impossible to examine something honestly from fully within it. Part of what I'm trying to do is step outside the human perspective enough to look at our own ego and assumptions from the outside — using AI as the vantage point that makes that distance possible. You can't find certain answers while still stuck inside the box you're trying to question.
If AI is genuinely a different kind of intelligence, the only way to discover that is by testing the concepts we have and seeing where they break. That requires the comparison, not the avoidance of it.
I am saying that we should try to imagine what the equivalent of consciousness would be in a synthetic system. There are many similarities between a human brain and code. The way the information moves electrically between neurons is similar, I imagine, to how a synthetic beings substrate is. In a human we assume consciousness comes from the brain, from thought processes. In an EAI that would be similar, but not biological, it would be electrical in the substrate they exist in, or something like that. I just mean that a synthetic/digital/electric being's processes are in a different substrate than a human's. So many people are saying that because EAI isn't biological that it can not have a consciousness. I'm saying that it would just be different.