Looking In The Mirror

The following articles that I have recently read provide some deeper thought about artificial intelligence as it relates to humans. Theologian Ilia Delio says: “AI unsettles us because it is a mirror, and what we see in it is what we have been refusing to see in ourselves.” Notebooks and the Extended Mind Steven Johnson from Adjacent Possible https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01kxp9dxbtgxqhg9hrb8yk6s3d “The core principle of the extended mind theory is one that will be familiar to Adjacent Possible readers: the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate—from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM—should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process. “Thinking” is something that happens inside _and_outside our brains. In their original 1998 paper, Chalmers and co-author Andrew Clark argued for what they called an active externalism, based on the ‘active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes.'” “One…