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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Neuroscience

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  • Deep learning advancements prompt debate on AI surpassing human intelligence.
  • Existing definitions of AI intelligence focus on task completion, not human cognition's essence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically evaluate the claim that AI can reach and surpass human thought.
  • To explore the limitations of current AI in replicating human consciousness and understanding.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of AI definitions of intelligence.
  • Comparison of machine and brain understanding.
  • Consideration of embodied cognition, brain lateralization, and glial cell function.
  • Application of Gödel's incompleteness and Turing's results to consciousness.

Main Results:

  • AI's goal-oriented definition of intelligence is insufficient for human thought.
  • Human consciousness involves subjective experience, embodiment, and unconscious processes, which AI currently ignores.
  • Gödel's and Turing's theorems suggest consciousness exceeds computational limits.

Conclusions:

  • AI, by mimicking only parts of the cerebral cortex, fails to capture the richness of human consciousness.
  • The transition from unconscious to conscious experience involves information loss, a complexity beyond current AI.
  • Embodied cognition, brain lateralization, and glial cells are crucial for human thought, factors often overlooked in AI development.