Artificial Intelligence and the Notions of the "Natural" and the "Artificial"

Justin Nnaemeka Onyeukaziri

《Journal of Data Analysis》 17卷4期特刊 (2022/12) Pp. 101-115

https://doi.org/10.6338/JDA.202212/SP_17(4).0009

摘要

This paper argues that to negate the ontological difference between the natural and the artificial, is not plausible; nor is the reduction of the natural to the artificial or vice versa possible. Except if one intends to empty the semantic content of the terms and notions: "natural" and "artificial." Most philosophical discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI) have always been in relation to the human person, especially as it relates to human intelligence, consciousness and/or mind in general. This paper, intends to broaden the conversation, by discussing AI in relation to the notions of "nature" and the "artificial." This intention is to more critically understand the artificiality in and of artificial intelligence. To achieve this, the notion of "nature" in Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature, has been employed as an epistemological tool in interrogating the notion of the artificial and the objectives of the science and technology of Artificial Intelligence.

關鍵字

Artificial Intelligence ； Artificiality ； Artefacts ； Information Processing ； the Natural

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