User:Tancre/2/outline draft

HUMAN's MIND & COMPUTER's SOFTWARE

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/outline_tancre2

Introduction

• What is going on?
• What about the individual experience?
• What is all this about?
• What is my perspective?

Part 1: Bodies & Minds

The Hard Problem Of Consciousness

• Before the hard problem
• The hard problem
• Consequences
• Reactions & present situation

The Machinic Life and Its Discontent (part 1)

• short introduction & mythological view
• before cybernetic
• before AI

The Machinic Life and Its Discontent (part 2)

• cybernetic
• symbolic AI
• limits

The Machinic Life and Its Discontent (part 3)

• sub-symbolic AI & Artificial Life
• other contemporary approaches
• possibilities & limits

Beyond Humans and Machines

• Intelligence augmentation (minds in between humans and machines)
• Cyborgs (bodies in between humans and machines)
• Bio-digital fusion & machinic phylum

Part 2: Consciousness & Software

(I don't know the exact order this part yet)

OBE

• out-of-brain experience
• out-of-hardware experience

Recursive Worlds

• world engine (simulation)
• world emulator

Me, Myself and I

• personal self model (Metzinger's PSM+PMRI)
• nonconscious (Hayles)

Consclusions

• software as a proto-subjectivity
• mind-software tunneling
• being with/in software