Human intelligence cannot be captured in an algorithmic formula - PKKH.tv

Technologists across the world have frantically embarked on the quest to create a new species in our own image -- general artificial intelligence with superior computational brain power. But we are only just beginning to understand the foundations of human intelligence and consciousness that cannot be captured in an algorithmic formula divorced from the functions of the body and the long evolution of our species and its microbiome. As the celebrated neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues in a WorldPost interview based on his new book, "The Strange Order of Things," it is the feelings and emotions, which originated and dwell in that biological terrain, that are constitutive of human intelligence, consciousness and the capacity for cultural creation. In short, a map of the computational mind is not the territory of what it means to be human. "Our minds operate in two registers," Damasio explains.