Verwandte Artikel zu Can AI Ever Be Human?: Consciousness Explored

Can AI Ever Be Human?: Consciousness Explored - Softcover

Umbrello, Steven; O'Hara, Paul

 
9780813240862: Can AI Ever Be Human?: Consciousness Explored
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813240867 ISBN 13: 9780813240862
Verlag: The Catholic University of America Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Can a machine ever truly be human? In an age where artificial intelligence writes poems, diagnoses illnesses, and converses with uncanny fluency, the line between human and machine seems to blur. Yet beneath the surface lies a fundamental distinction. Drawing on Bernard Lonergan’s insights as well as the rich Catholic intellectual tradition, Can AI Ever Be Human? argues that while machines can simulate aspects of human behavior, they cannot cross the threshold into genuine consciousness.

O’Hara and Umbrello guide readers through the essential structures of human knowing: experience, understanding, judgment, and decision. In doing so, they show how each involves intentionality, self-awareness, and freedom. These uniquely human capacities cannot be reduced to algorithms or replicated by even the most advanced neural networks.

The book also addresses pressing ethical and theological questions: What does it mean to be made in the image of God? How do we preserve human dignity in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence? Far from being anti-technology, O’Hara and Umbrello affirm the value of AI as a tool that emulates a Turing machine, although constrained by Gödel’s theorem, while rejecting the illusion that it can replace human beings.

Accessible yet rigorous, Can AI Ever Be Human? speaks to scholars, students, clergy, and general readers alike. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, scientific methodology, philosophy, and theology, and for all who seek to understand what makes us irreducibly human in an era of rapid technological change.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul O' Hara is a professor of ontology and scientific rationality at Sophia University, Italy. Steven Umbrello is Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
The Catholic University of America Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813240867
ISBN 13 
9780813240862
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
232
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar