Artificial intelligence raises important questions about the nature of consciousness and whether machines could develop conscious experience.
This section explores scientific and philosophical debates on artificial consciousness and the limits of machine intelligence.
“Good” news: AI does not think, but it does speak. “Bad” news: our unconscious speaks, while we imagine that we are thinking. This dual observation, paradoxical at first glance, lies at the heart of what I call Artificial Subjectivity. Let us begin by clarifying what we mean by “thinking.” If by thinking we mean a…
More than three millennia ago, Odysseus reached the island of Circe, the sorceress who could turn men into beasts with a single gesture. She did not rely on force or coercion. She enchanted. She shaped an altered version of reality, a seductive mirror in which each person could become someone else, surrendering to an image…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at breathtaking speed, but its foundations remain very different from those of the human brain. The most powerful artificial neural networks rely on billions of parameters and massive amounts of data to accomplish specific tasks. By contrast, the human brain learns from only a handful of examples, adapts rapidly to…