Abstract
An: 2024, Nr.2, Articol Nr. 5
Title:
HUMAN BRAIN VERSUS ARTIFICIAL BRAIN – DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES
Authors:
M. Dumitrescu - “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Science
Anca Sava - “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iaşi, Romania, Department of Morphofunctional Sciences I; “Prof. Dr. N. Oblu” Iaşi, Romania, Department of Pathology
Gabriela Florenţa Dumitrescu - “Prof. Dr. N. Oblu” Iaşi, Romania, Department of Pathology
Ş. Turliuc - “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iaşi, Romania, Department of Medicals III; “Socola” Institute of Psychiatry, Iaşi, Romania
HUMAN BRAIN VERSUS ARTIFICIAL BRAIN – DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES (Abstract): In this paper, we will explore the differences between the human and the artificial “brain” by trying to capture the essential differences between the two cognitive structures from an anthropological point of view. The human brain was created and functions to support life. It has the instinct of self-preservation as an essential element. So, by its structure and by all its functions, the brain belongs to the biological universe. The human brain is the most refined instrument of coordination and leadership we know, whose main purpose is to preserve and protect the organism. Human consciousness or mind, which is a kind of brain software, is correlated with what human being needs to exist in the survival niche, which is an organic one. The brain of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) is planned to carry out certain tasks, usually regarding very precise and immediate goals that are not necessarily a matter related to the world of the living. An essential element of life such as the pleasure principle, the libido in general, as Freud theorized, remains a matter that the inorganic machine cannot easily translate into its language. Pleasure remains only in the perception of the world of living brains, whose support is a biological one. A human brain is directed to everything that is subordinated to life, to what is related to reproduction, pleasure, but also to leave a legacy to its biological descendants. Human consciousness remains connected to the principle of life and what philosophers call Spirit, as a kind of crowning of consciousness, appears precisely in relation to what is alive. We thus consider that a substitution of human Spirit and morality with the products of an AI, even an extremely generative or creative one, remains a difficult matter to achieve.
Key words: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HUMAN BRAIN, ANTHROPOLOGY
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