The Talos Principle
So I recently started playing the above game (on sale now on steam), and it gives a very apparent but little analyzed look into the concept of AI - not only does AI draw a line as to where intelligence enters or does not, it poses the very real problem of that, if there is an artificial intelligence, then we know that there is a consciousness (supposing we conflate self-awareness and consciousness, another question posted by the game), which has an exclusively physical form, and that subsequently implies that our consciousness, our 'ego,' as it were, can be entirely dependent its physical component.
The subsequent ramifications of that are subsequently horrifying. Not only does the existence know end with death, as we often think, but, for instance, we look at children who die young, who know nothing more than to suffer excruciating pain and die only a few years after birth. That is the extent of their existence. Their entire consciousness is one of dominated by suffering, pain, and early oblivion. The other reality is that we live in a world that would allow such phenomena to pass, not as a result of human interaction, but that that human interaction is in itself par for the course.
It draws back to the continous seductive nature of theism in the face of the horrors of disbelief, but as any true philosopher, there is an obligation to stare into the abyss in the search of truth, not matter how tormented the visions one might find.
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And here I thought it was just some shitty puzzle game.
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