Strong arguments have been formulated that the computational limits of disembodied artificial intelligence (AI) will, sooner or later, be a problem that needs to be addressed. Similarly, convincing cases for how embodied forms of AI can exceed these limits makes for worthwhile research avenues. This paper discusses how embodied cognition brings with it other forms of information integration and decision-making consequences that typically involve discussions of machine cognition and similarly, machine consciousness. N. Katherine Hayles’s novel conception of nonconscious cognition in her analysis of the human cognition-consciousness connection is discussed in relation to how nonconscious cognition can be envisioned and exacerbated in embodied AI. Similarly, this paper offers a way of understanding the concept of suffering in a way that is different than the conventional sense of attributing it to either a purely physical state or a conscious state, instead of grounding at least a type of suffering in this form of cognition.
«In Stefan L. Sorgners Werk wird die tiefgründige Originalität von einem umfassenden Wissen der philosophischen Tradition begleitet. Seine Erforschung der möglichen Bedeutungen des Post-Humanismus ist bereits ein Bezugspunkt, den die zeitgenössische Kultur nicht unbeachtet lassen kann.» Gianni Vattimo, Universität Turin
«Nel lavoro di Stefan L. Sorgner la profonda originalità si accompagna con una vasta conoscenza della tradizione filosofica. La sua esplorazione dei possibili significati del post-umanesimo è ormai un punto di riferimento da cui la cultura contemporanea non può prescindere.» Gianni Vattimo, Università di Torino
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