MACHINE INTELLIGENCE AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THE LIVING - Yvonne Förster

YVONNE FÖRSTER Philosopher

PERCEPTION BEYOND THE HUMAN

At first glance, the worldview of philosophy seems incompatible with that of shamanism. A rigorous concept of rationality must set itself apart from the spiritual, from empirically inexplicable, ensouled things and remote effects. Looking more closely, however, one soon finds philosophical positions which conceive of a mental dimension that transcends humankind and its rationality. Especially German idealism, with its famous protagonists Hegel, Schelling and Fichte, sees mind rather than matter as the ontological basis of being. David Chalmers argues similarly when he contends that the primary attribute of being is consciousness or, more specifically, a proto-consciousness of all fundamental physical entities. The notion that things are endowed with souls is accordingly not exclusive to shamanistic worldviews (...)

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