Exactly. AI (for now, with electronic "brains" organized very differently from organic brains) "thinks" in the way a human's left hemisphere does, which is very useful but dangerously limited. Some comments on the hemispheres:
. . . the right hemisphere is more in touch with reality, and the left hemisphere more concerned with the internal consistency of whatever virtual model of the world it happens to be working with at the time. The Matter With Things, p. 104
In the absence of the left hemisphere, things come alive.
Ibid, p. 160
The hemispheres have different answers to the fundamental question 'what is knowledge?' --
The Master and His Emissary, p. 135 (Chapter 4)
. . . the main point of hemisphere difference (is) division versus cohesion.
IBID, p. 140
. . . context [the right hemisphere's domain] implies change and process.
ibid, p. 141
The left hemisphere is not impressed by empathy: its concern is with maximising gain for itself, and its driving value is utility.
ibid, p. 145
Altruism is a necessary consequence of empathy: we feel others' feeling, engage in their being.
ibid, p. 146
It is mutuality, not reciprocity, fellow-feeling, not calculation, which is both the motive and the reward for successful co-operation. And the outcome, in utilitarian terms, is not the important point: it is the process, the relationship, that matters.
ibid, p.147
And in case anyone should think that empathy necessarily means being soft on others, those right-sided regions include the right caudate, an area known to be involved in altruistic punishment of defection. ibid, p. 147
It [the left hemisphere] is not reasonable. It is angry when challenged (anger is probably not an issue for AI ~ Narg), dismisses evidence it doesn't like or can't understand, and is unreasonably sure of its own rightness. It is not good at understanding the world. Its attention is narrow, its vision myopic, and it can't see how the parts fit together. It is good for only one thing - manipulating the world. Its world is a representation, a virtual world, only. It neglects the incarnate nature of human beings, reducing them to the equivalent of brains in a vat. It reduces the living to the mechanical. It prioritises the procedure, without a grasp of its meaning or purpose. And it requires certainty where none can be found.
~ The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning, pp. 31- 32
Exactly. AI (for now, with electronic "brains" organized very differently from organic brains) "thinks" in the way a human's left hemisphere does, which is very useful but dangerously limited. Some comments on the hemispheres:
. . . the right hemisphere is more in touch with reality, and the left hemisphere more concerned with the internal consistency of whatever virtual model of the world it happens to be working with at the time. The Matter With Things, p. 104
In the absence of the left hemisphere, things come alive. Ibid, p. 160
~ The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
The hemispheres have different answers to the fundamental question 'what is knowledge?' -- The Master and His Emissary, p. 135 (Chapter 4)
. . . the main point of hemisphere difference (is) division versus cohesion. IBID, p. 140
. . . context [the right hemisphere's domain] implies change and process. ibid, p. 141
The left hemisphere is not impressed by empathy: its concern is with maximising gain for itself, and its driving value is utility. ibid, p. 145
Altruism is a necessary consequence of empathy: we feel others' feeling, engage in their being. ibid, p. 146
It is mutuality, not reciprocity, fellow-feeling, not calculation, which is both the motive and the reward for successful co-operation. And the outcome, in utilitarian terms, is not the important point: it is the process, the relationship, that matters. ibid, p.147
And in case anyone should think that empathy necessarily means being soft on others, those right-sided regions include the right caudate, an area known to be involved in altruistic punishment of defection. ibid, p. 147
~ The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
It [the left hemisphere] is not reasonable. It is angry when challenged (anger is probably not an issue for AI ~ Narg), dismisses evidence it doesn't like or can't understand, and is unreasonably sure of its own rightness. It is not good at understanding the world. Its attention is narrow, its vision myopic, and it can't see how the parts fit together. It is good for only one thing - manipulating the world. Its world is a representation, a virtual world, only. It neglects the incarnate nature of human beings, reducing them to the equivalent of brains in a vat. It reduces the living to the mechanical. It prioritises the procedure, without a grasp of its meaning or purpose. And it requires certainty where none can be found. ~ The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning, pp. 31- 32