Knowledge Implosion - MoAPS - part 2

(continued from part 1......)

Yes, the Searle argument comes from Hinkfuss via Lycan (1981).

But then we have the computational theory of cognition...... if the brain is computational, then why is not a hurricane?

You may wish to employ a functional account of biological systems, but functionalism is notoriously subjective.

Furthermore, if cognition is not computable, then AI is impossible.

If intelligence is not computable, then it must be holistic and parasitic upon a self. That this self would be universal follows from its inclusion of computation and intelligence. And that the self could contemplate altruistic suicide can only point to a higher version of the self, which is what personalism envisions.

From this fundamental perspective I do not see that personalism is avoidable.

From personalism follows, almost immediately, anthropocentrism, in as much as we would not and could not merely be God's spawn.

Let us recap...... the notion of pancomutationalism renders AI highly dubious. Personalism is then the next most likely ontology.

IOW, the MoAPS will necessarily preclude materialism/reductionism. Then it can only turn toward personalism. Then, let us add to this the coherence theory of truth (CohTT). The coherer is God and us in that image. The MoAPS is the personal internalization of the CohTT. This is the knowledge implosion. In the prophetic tradition, we can expect a personal harbinger of this global event. Thus do we reify, historisize the 4M/K/SoT/X2 event. Thus does the sky fall on our heads. Is this not the best possible eschaton for the best possible world? We then expect the Millennial kingdom come. What else might we expect?

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