Blaise Agüera y Arcas on how AI is blurring Descartes' mind-machine divide
blaiseaguera · x · 2026-11-15
In Big Think's "Made in Our Image" series, Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores how different human minds and AI really are. Starting from Descartes' "mechanical philosophy" — which severed bodies from souls and reduced plants and animals to clockwork — he argues AI is now blurring the 400-year-old line between mind and machine.
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