Ventriloquism, Indifference, Beyond

Michael L. Johnson
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Chapter 39 in Mind, Language, Machine, 1988, pp 279-281 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the early 1960s Marshall McLuhan made the following argument about AI: Any process that approaches instant interrelation of a total field tends to raise itself to the level of conscious awareness, so that computers seem to ‘think.’ In fact, they are highly specialized at present, and quite lacking in the full process of interrelation that makes for consciousness. Obviously, they can be made to simulate the process of consciousness, just as our electric global networks now begin to simulate the condition of our central nervous system. But a conscious computer would still be one that was an extension of our consciousness, as a telescope is an extension of our eyes, or as a ventriloquist’s dummy is an extension of the ventriloquist.1

Keywords: Black Hole; Model Context; Conscious Awareness; Total Field; Human Consciousness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_39

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