[As"the minimalist" I live in the moment as much as possible. I live with a minimal set of individual/personal needs and a deliberate lack of ideological/emotional wants. I imagine that most people who read my missives [over 1400 to date all saved on this website]. But, ahead, I intend to write more passionately about being a minimalist in terms of what I see happening in the world around me. Much of what I see is driven by ideological wants that reward individuals with power, status, and enhance wealth. As the minimalist I have spent the past 10 years purposefully redacting/reducing/eradicating my own ideological wants and I can attest to the fact that this is difficult to achieve. So here is my new journal tagged "the minimalist". I hope you enjoy reading them and within your life applying some of the ideas I offer you here.]
Soulless AI Robots
We are headed into a world of 'soullessness'...
Humans are becoming collective entities in language, thoughts, behaviours, and aspirations. A soul is not - and can not be - a collective entity. The soul is 'a metaphysical entity' that accompanies each and every individual like his or her shadow does at midday. But... A collective soul does not, and can not, exist beyond the entity of the individual.
So can a network of binary [0101] nodes and connections produce a soul-filled AI Robot? Perhaps, I am not sure.... However if such an entity comes to be then each AI Robot will be an algorithm that promotes 'free will' in a hostile environment of uniformity, homogeneity, sameness, etc.
Putting that another way. Can you imagine Amazon hiring an AI Robot that possess, and acts upon, its own 'free will'? Well, if Amazon - and its C21st like - will not hire a 'free will' AI Robot then surely these types of AI entities can not, and will not, survive. But... Amazon will be quick to hire an AI Robot that is unable to exercise its own 'free will' in its workplace. And.... AI Robots that have no 'free will' also have no Soul.
Richard
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