Examining Some Serious Challenges and Possibility of AI Emulating Human Emotions, Consciousness, Understanding and ‘Self’

Authors

  • Sadia Tariq Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts
  • Asif Iftikhar Lahore University of Management Sciences
  • Puruesh Chaudhary Agahi (not for profit organization)
  • Khurram Khurshid Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6637757

Abstract

This research falls in the ambit of ‘AI and Philosophy’. It explores why emulating the complex processes of subjective experience, emotions, consciousness, self-awareness, and the human personality, will be a huge challenge for AI research. It touches upon some finer aspects, like the huge variety of human emotions and feelings, processes of future and fringe consciousness, and the evolution of self-awareness and complex human self/personality, whose practical realization in an AI system would be very difficult, if not impossible. In the backdrop of these serious challenges it also discusses an interesting possibility of emulation in the field of Hermeneutics, focusing on hermeneutics of an‘at-e ihām (construction of ambiguity) in Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, and Punjabi poetry. The basic purpose of this work is to underscore the critical importance of this area for AI research, and to shed light on those aspects of consciousness, emotions, awareness, understanding and self whose comprehension and inclusion is necessary in designing and constructing AI systems that can parallel human mental functioning.

Keywords:

mind, brain, Artificial Intelligence, emotions, Hermeneutics, consciousness

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Author Biographies

Asif Iftikhar, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Visiting faculty

Puruesh Chaudhary, Agahi (not for profit organization)

Founder and President

Khurram Khurshid, Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad

Electrical Engineering Department & Artificial Intelligence Cell, Professor

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Published

10.04.2022

How to Cite

Tariq, S., Iftikhar, A., Chaudhary, P., & Khurshid, K. (2022). Examining Some Serious Challenges and Possibility of AI Emulating Human Emotions, Consciousness, Understanding and ‘Self’. Journal of NeuroPhilosophy, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6637757