TY - CHAP
T1 - Intelligence: From natural to artificial
AU - Pereira, Luís Moniz
AU - Lopes, António Barata
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The term “Artificial Intelligence” becomes understandable only if we can explain what the terms “Intelligence” and “Artificial” mean, as well as the connection between them. The term “Intelligence” will be viewed as a general faculty to solve problems in a variety of contexts. Arguments will be presented in favour of the evolutionary character of intelligence up to the present, in which there are beings—we humans—capable of producing symbols of abstract nature, capable of representing conjectures about reality, on the basis of internal models. On the other hand, Nature will also be interpreted as a support for the creation of artificiality, in that increasingly complex and functional codifications emerge. Thanks to their capacity for symbolising, human beings for the first time implement a complex system of synchronic and diachronic networked functioning. The transition from an organic to an engineered platform for cognition might be interpreted as “just” another evolutionary leap.
AB - The term “Artificial Intelligence” becomes understandable only if we can explain what the terms “Intelligence” and “Artificial” mean, as well as the connection between them. The term “Intelligence” will be viewed as a general faculty to solve problems in a variety of contexts. Arguments will be presented in favour of the evolutionary character of intelligence up to the present, in which there are beings—we humans—capable of producing symbols of abstract nature, capable of representing conjectures about reality, on the basis of internal models. On the other hand, Nature will also be interpreted as a support for the creation of artificiality, in that increasingly complex and functional codifications emerge. Thanks to their capacity for symbolising, human beings for the first time implement a complex system of synchronic and diachronic networked functioning. The transition from an organic to an engineered platform for cognition might be interpreted as “just” another evolutionary leap.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078540682&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-39630-5_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-39630-5_3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85078540682
SN - 978-3-030-39629-9
T3 - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
SP - 25
EP - 32
BT - Machine Ethics
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -