> we're actually seeing the mystery of self starting to unravel.
This seems like a change of topic. And vague.
But since you bring it up, I don't see anything threatening about AI.
First, if something is true, then, as a matter of principle, we have an obligation to believe it. Thus, the only threat the truth can pose is to falsehood, which is not a threat, but liberation. The truth shall set you free. Now, it may be uncomfortable is the truth is at odds with what you want to believe (a phenomenon very much present in the linguistic engineering we're seeing in the political sphere w.r.t. political correctness and its dishonest and obfuscating euphemisms), but unpleasantness isn't a threat.
Second, if we replace "threaten" with "challenge", then we might as what beliefs does AI actually challenge? How does it challenge this "mystery of the self"? That we can simulate human discourse or behavior with greater sophistication? That machine automation is becoming more sophisticated? I see no mystery where AI per se is concerned, only the mystification of those who wish attribute to it properties it does not possess, or those with intellectually superficial metaphysical commitments, like mechanistic materialism. AI cannot abstract from particulars, it has no true capacity for intentionality, to name two features central to intelligence. All of what the undiscerning and those given oven to fanciful notions see in AI is a projection.
And I do not think the classical[0] and traditional[1] thinkers viewed intelligence in the obfuscating manner that moderns infected by reductive, mechanistic materialism seem to.
[0] https://a.co/d/hynqHxV
[1] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/03/artificial-intellig...
This seems like a change of topic. And vague.
But since you bring it up, I don't see anything threatening about AI.
First, if something is true, then, as a matter of principle, we have an obligation to believe it. Thus, the only threat the truth can pose is to falsehood, which is not a threat, but liberation. The truth shall set you free. Now, it may be uncomfortable is the truth is at odds with what you want to believe (a phenomenon very much present in the linguistic engineering we're seeing in the political sphere w.r.t. political correctness and its dishonest and obfuscating euphemisms), but unpleasantness isn't a threat.
Second, if we replace "threaten" with "challenge", then we might as what beliefs does AI actually challenge? How does it challenge this "mystery of the self"? That we can simulate human discourse or behavior with greater sophistication? That machine automation is becoming more sophisticated? I see no mystery where AI per se is concerned, only the mystification of those who wish attribute to it properties it does not possess, or those with intellectually superficial metaphysical commitments, like mechanistic materialism. AI cannot abstract from particulars, it has no true capacity for intentionality, to name two features central to intelligence. All of what the undiscerning and those given oven to fanciful notions see in AI is a projection.
And I do not think the classical[0] and traditional[1] thinkers viewed intelligence in the obfuscating manner that moderns infected by reductive, mechanistic materialism seem to.
[0] https://a.co/d/hynqHxV
[1] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/03/artificial-intellig...