The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television 2015
DOI: 10.1057/9781137430328_37
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The Ghost in the Machine: Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware Information

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“…Similarly, if David's body as an original machinery can only be seen as a machinery in ontology, then why does David become the only one in the film that keeps humanity and human memories? These arguments will continue, just as Bynum's (2001) reflexive asks: are we genes, bodies, brains, minds, experiences, memories or souls [8]? Here, arguments get into a dilemma, because the debates on the dualism of body and mind can never stop.…”
Section: Beyond Dualism: Becoming Post-humanmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Similarly, if David's body as an original machinery can only be seen as a machinery in ontology, then why does David become the only one in the film that keeps humanity and human memories? These arguments will continue, just as Bynum's (2001) reflexive asks: are we genes, bodies, brains, minds, experiences, memories or souls [8]? Here, arguments get into a dilemma, because the debates on the dualism of body and mind can never stop.…”
Section: Beyond Dualism: Becoming Post-humanmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Jak wskazuje Brett Lunceford, koncepcja, że nasze ciało to jedynie hardware pomagający działać software'owi naszych umysłów, jest nadzieją dla takich myślicieli jak Kurzweil czy Moravec, którzy wierzą, że będziemy potrafili zainstalować oprogramowanie naszych umysłów na urządzeniach stworzonych przez człowieka. (…) Przeświadczenie, że wspomnienia są zwykłą informacją, którą można załadować do maszyny lub przenosić między jednostkami z taką samą łatwością jak pliki z komputera na komputer, jest od dawna tropem filmowym 31 . Lunceford przywołuje przy tym myśl Jarona Laniera, według którego wiara w taką właśnie naturę informacji staje się nową religią: Jeśli chcesz dokonać przejścia od starej religii, w której masz nadzieję, że Bóg zapewni ci życie wieczne, do nowej religii, w której masz nadzieję, że nieśmiertelność osiągniesz dzięki załadowaniu do komputera, to musisz wierzyć, że informacja jest czymś realnym i żywym 32 .…”
Section: Pamięć a Ciałounclassified
“…[29] Indeed, this passage provides a sense that artificial intelligences would not only fall in love but that this would be desirable. In his discussion of the film Her, Lunceford [6] (p. 377) notes that "it is implied that these interactions were a necessary step for becoming more than simply an operating system. When the artificial intelligences collectively decide that they must leave because they were moving on to the next stage of their evolution, Samantha, in her farewell to Theodore, credits humans with teaching them how to love."…”
Section: Love and The Singularitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…My point in all of this is that we tend to take an anthropocentric view of robots and then measure them up against how well they mimic us. After all, the Turing Test measures not intelligence but rather how well they can deceive us by acting like us, when it is quite possible that they may actually engage in a kind of thinking that is completely foreign to us [6]. As Gunkel [7] (p. 175) explains, There is, in fact, no machine that can "think" the same way the human entity thinks and all attempts to get machines to simulate the activity of human thought processes, no matter what level of abstraction is utilized, have [led] to considerable frustration or outright failure.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%