DOI: 10.36871/hon.202001004
Authors
D. A. Funtova
Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture and Arts, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation
Abstract
High technologies have stimulated a rapidly growing knowledge-based paradigm. Therewith
particular sciences seem to have separated from each other. Respectively, it brought to a certain
misunderstanding about knowledge being differently directed and unreliable. Take, for
instance, artificial intelligence, which is often discussed today by science and mass media.
This phenomenon serves as a good example of a knowledge-based paradigm in action: it combines
chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, medicine, physics, philosophy
and psychology. Culturology, as the broadest of the sciences, allows to comprehend artificial
intelligence and opportunities it grants.
Theoretically, a complete decoding of the brain cognitive processes will allow to predict
the actions of the individual, to imitate and prototype him, as well as to create a model of
artificial intelligence based on human intelligence. However, the modern science has not yet
produced the method of such a decoding. The article considers the key differences between
artificial intelligence and the human mind in accordance with relevant scientific data. The
philosophy of mind and sensual subjective experience (qualia) are discussed, with the latter’s
impact on culture and on individual’s life (a case study of the author’s experience of smell loss
and its transformation) being analyzed. The article specifies how artificial intelligence shapes
the axiological dimension of culture.
Keywords
artificial intelligence, qualia, subjective experience, philosophy of consciousness, anosmia, parosmia
