Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence & TGD

Abstract

Recently a humanoid robot known as Sophia has gained a lot of attention on the Internet. Sophia uses AI, visual data processing and facial recognition. Sophia imitates human gestures and facial expressions and is able to answer questions and make simple conversations on predefined topics. The AI program used analyzes conversations, extracts data, and uses it to improve responses in the future. To a skeptic, Sophia looks like a highly advanced version of ELIZA. Personally, I hold rather skeptic view about strong AI relying on a mechanistic view about intelligence which leads to transhumanism and notions such as mind uploading. It is, however, good to air out one's thinking sometimes. Computers should have a description also in the quantal Universe of TGD and this forces me to look more precisely about the idealizations of AI. This process led me to a change of my attitudes. The fusion of human consciousness and presumably rather primitive computer consciousness but correlating with the program running in it might be possible in TGD Universe. TGD inspired quantum biology and the recent ideas about prebiotic systems provide rather concrete ideas in attempts to realize this fusion. TGD also strongly suggests that there is also what might be called Natural Intelligence relying on 2-D cognitive representations defined by networks consisting of nodes (neurons) and flux tubes (axons with nerve pulse patterns) connecting them rather than linear 1-D representation used by AI. The topological dynamics of these networks has Boolean dynamics of computer programs as a projection but is much more general and could allow one to represent objects of perceptive field and number theoretic cognition.