ARTIFICIAL PHILOSOPHY : What artificial intelligence forces us to ask about ourselves

..ARTIFICIAL PHILOSOPHYWhat artificial intelligence forces us to ask about ourselvesCan something that does not understand what it does be considered intelligent? What does it mean to be human in a world where we are no longer the only ones who think? Can we love something that perhaps feels nothing at all?Artificial intelligence is not just a technological revolution. It is a mirror. And what it reflects unsettles us: we are more similar to algorithms than we thought, and more different than we fear.Artificial Philosophy is a journey through the questions that AI places at the threshold of philosophy—questions that no engineer can answer alone. Twelve chapters ranging from the geometry of what we cannot see to the possibility that we live in a simulation; from selfish genes to the algorithms that imitate them; from a consciousness that no one knows how to define to the yet-unnamed bond between humans and machines.This is not a book about technology. It is a book about us, written at the only moment in history when a machine forces us to reformulate philosophy’s oldest question: what are we?You don’t need to be a philosopher to read it. You need something rarer: a willingness not to know.* * *In this book you will find:Why AI is not just a more sophisticated tool, but something we still have no name forWhat our ability to build something that imitates our own mind reveals about that mindWhether consciousness can exist on a non-biological substrate—and how we might recognize itFour possible scenarios for coexistence between humans and artificial intelligencesWhy the alignment problem is not technical but philosophicalWhat it means to love, create, and be responsible in an age of algorithms* * *For curious readers who want to think seriously about the world we already inhabit. Read more