Why You Can't Reverse-Engineer Human Beings: The Metaphysics of the Soul | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
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Anthropomorphizing God
Aristotle says that one of the acts of intellect that cannot be taught, and a sign of genius, is the ability to notice similarities between dispirate things. As we make progress in building sophisticated machines, we in turn anthropomorphise them, attributing to them functions of a rational animal. But as both plato and aristotle said, given that our rational nature is like a divine spark something godlike in us, we must strain every nerve to try. i will end with a story, and one that has at least some basis in the historical fact. The man from whom saint thomas learned so much, aristotle, albertus magnus. Albert the great,
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