Why You Can't Reverse-Engineer Human Beings: The Metaphysics of the Soul | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
Can Human Beings Be Reverse Engineering?
i am answering the question, can human beings be reverse engineer? That i think is implicitly provoked by the artificial intelligence, meuro science, techne but what i need too first is distinguish that question from the various questions that commonly arise and are explicitly acknowledged an cluded in the trans humanist project. In fact, i will argue that trans humanists would be surprised to learn what classical philosophers think about their project. The reason is that classical philosophers formulated answers to questions that we no longer ask,. Questions which have been displaced by a different set of questions which make the idea of reverse engineering human life seem plausible. It is up to us to evaluate these perspectives, but first we must
