One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than … - Alva Noe

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I'd like to go out knowing that I helped a few people along the way.

Alva Noe

One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.

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Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration.

Order, World, Patterns, Discover, Things

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology, Perception, Happens

The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.

Skills, Needs, World, Memorize, Know, Sense

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

Thinking, World, Facts, Consciousness, Fact

I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

Thinking, Conscious, Humans, Beings, Dynamic