| Non-human intelligences has been considered over the centuries / millennia: * https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/aliens-and-... I'm not sure there's a 'definitive' statement as of yet as to AI, but things tend to be leaning towards needing to be biological: * https://www.catholic.com/audio/caf/can-artificial-intelligen... * https://www.ncregister.com/interview/the-mind-and-the-machin... Not sure if this means carbon-based or not: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi... Some thoughts from a philosophy professor (who is Catholic): > 2. “But neurons do what logic gates do. So we know that computers can be intelligent, because they are essentially doing what our brains are doing.” > No, they aren’t. True, there are causal relations between neurons that are vaguely analogous to the causal relations holding between logic gates and other elements of an electronic computer. But that is where the similarity ends, and it is a similarity that is far less significant than the differences between the cases. Logic gates are designed by electrical engineers in a way that will make them suitable for interpretation as implementing logical functions. No one is doing anything like that with neurons. In particular, no one is assigning an interpretation as implementing a logical function, or any other interpretation for that matter, to neurons. (The point is simple and obvious, but commonly overlooked precisely because it is so obvious, like the tip of your nose that you never notice precisely because it is right in front of you.) > That brings us to a second difference […] * https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/03/artificial-intellig... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Feser He has a few books, including one entitled Philosophy of Mind (A Beginner's Guide), so has thought about this. |