/lit/ - Literature

Is Strong AI possible? To what extent can we distinguish between sentience and intelligence, or sense and cognition?

Is strong AI possible? Will the AIs of the future ever be capable of comprehending semantic - and not just syntactic - properties?

>>13308529
fair enough, I wasn't aware Krishnamurti was in conversation with Whitehead on this point

>Slow down there, great decay certainly serves a crucial role in aesthetics but you're overlooking the heredity of death to life: death is on a leash, immortality is juxtaposed to life as life-as-death vs life.

but I believe that's what I'm saying, no eros without thanatos, no thanatos without eros, an excess of life is itself a kind of death

>>13308526
either mundanity prevails (the rulers of the Orion's Arm setting are AI gods, but they still tolerate and even enjoy the presence of sentients at our level, so post-singularity society remains remarkably mundane and recognizable, people still shitpost on the internet, people still argue over the issues of their times, it's just your "president", your "prime minister", or whatever, is now is an incomprehensible machine god whose brain is the size of a star cluster)

or we actually are destined to evolve into perfect beings wholesale (stellar larva theory thinks biological life is the "larval" stage of stars, and we're meant to emigrate into space, release ourselves from our dependence on the earth/the determination of gravity, and become exalted self-beholding stellar cores or some dank shit like that)

or, you get the Land booga wooga shit which is doing its damn best to convince you its the only choice. no thanks.

MODERNITY IS THE AMERICAN IDOL OF ESCHATON VECTORS, there's a line I've been meaning to use

I haven't touched genre fiction in over a decade, but I've come back to sci-fi with a more mature and discerning taste and loving it.

I'm looking for hard, metaphysical/philosophical sci-fi just like Orion's Arm and John C. Wright's Eschaton series. Please no Xelee or Culture, I'm sick to deal with them. Nothing as crazy as what Wright was doing at the end of CoI (though that would very welcome), I just want something fucking evocative, inspired, adult.

What do you guys recommend?