A natural artificial intelligence? Some notes on the computational biomimicry of human intelligence

Abstract

This article introduces the case that it does not seem plausible that AI can come to be presented as interchangeable with human intellect, as if its processes could pass as natural, as much as our intellectual exercise of understanding reality is. The paper shows that even though AI reproduces the structure of human knowledge yet misses subjectivity. And in that sense, strong AI could not overcome human knowledge, because it is not able to see itself as an active spectator of itself, nor protagonist or responsible for its actions. Though some think that the human being’s own lies in a dynamic combination of different characteristics such as vulnerable corporeality, autonomous rationality, and interdependent sociability. It is of no interest to AI to imitate our biographical temporal vulnerability, although it would be interested in imitating rational autonomy; and it does not need interdependent sociability either.