Menon S., Todariya S., Agerwala T. (Eds.) AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism Fundamental Reflections on Minds and Machines

Springer Singapore 2024. — 349 p. — eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-0503-0.Enriches understanding of cutting-edge questions on AI and society.
Presents leading expertise from diverse humanities and scientific communities around the world.
Offers fundamental reflections on questions from humanities, social sciences, brain studies, and philosophy on AI.This edited volume presents perspectives from computer science, information theory, neuroscience and brain imaging, aesthetics, social sciences, psychiatry, and philosophy to answer frontier questions related to artificial intelligence and human experience. Can a machine think, believe, aspire, and be purposeful as a human? What is the place in the machine world for hope, meaning, and transformative enlightenment that inspires human existence? How, or are, the minds of machines different from that of humans and other species? These questions are responded to along with questions in the intersection of health, intelligence, and the brain. It highlights the place of consciousness by attempting to respond to questions with the help of fundamental reflections on human existence, its life-purposes, and machine intelligence. The volume is a must-read for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researchers in humanities and social sciences and philosophy of science who wish to understand the future of AI and society.True PDF