Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds in a recent Big Think article.

Scientists love a good classification system. It’s important to give things labels and it’s fun to step back and look at your beautiful taxonomic tables. Given that Aristotle is considered one of the first scientists, it’ll come as no surprise that he was just as fond of diving the world into categories. He divided animals into “those with blood” and “those without.” Some were “lives on land” and others “lives on sea.” But one of the most famous Aristotelian categories was his division of the soul. It’s a division that has defined the Western conception of all living things…

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