The more I stare into and contemplate AI, the more a disturbing picture emerges. You know that I have studied the mind of a Technocrat for a very long time, and for good reason: This is where the madness originates.
Technocrats have a thoroughly mechanistic mindset. Cambridge Dictionary defines mechanistic as “thinking of living things as if they were machines”, nothing more than a bucket of atoms arranged in a particular sequence to produce causes and effects. Thus, if you can study the material universe from the macro down to the sub-atomic level, you can arrive at a god-like understanding of how everything works and then proceed to control it all.
To the Technocrat mind, AI is equivalent to the human brain. The Technocrat mind will perceive no difference. In theory, then, it should be possible to create the functional equivalent that will compete with the human brain.
Yes, there is a competition, and you can see in the descriptive language: “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) and “Artificial Super Intelligence” (ASI). An “artificial“ human brain is attributed to having qualities of true human “intelligence.” The goal is to achieve sentience, or “a sentient state or quality; capacity for feeling or perceiving; consciousness,” or “mere awareness or sensation that does not involve thought or perception".
This is all patently insane, but you can’t convince a Technocrat that they are completely off the rails. Listen to Google’s “Selfish Ledger” video to get a sense of what I am talking about:
I will explain the gaping holes of logic in the mechanistic worldview below.