In last week’s podcast, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed Concordia University philosopher Angus Menuge on the difficult mind–body problem: Dr. Menuge sees mind–body interaction as a transmission of information between two realms; our minds and bodies are one integrated system with a translation function… like developing and then writing down an idea. But what about artificial intelligence? We are told that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is now pushing towards a machine that can totally duplicate the functions of the human mind. But what if the mind is not simply a mechanical function of the brain? What if it is non-algorithmic and non-computable?
This portion begins at 29:04 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow.
Robert J. Marks: I still have one more question that I want to ask you. If indeed dualism is true, doesn’t that mean that we will never be able to have artificial general intelligence where we have a strict duplication of human performance?
Angus Menuge (pictured): Yeah, I think it does. There will
be artificial general intelligence in the sense that there are very
sophisticated learning algorithms that can generalize, and so they can
move from their initial training domain to work in new areas. So at the
level of just being able to formally solve problems, you could say
there’ll be artificial general intelligence. However, what you’re asking
about is will it really duplicate everything about
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