Man as a combination of Homo Sapiens and Homo Sentienstranslated

Myths and truths about the prospect of creating Artificial Consciousness

By Prokopios Pavlopoulos (former President of the Republic, Academician, Professor Emeritus of the School of Law of the EKPA)

Preface In our time, and in the corresponding phase of the Technological Revolution, many times Man in front of the emblematic achievements of Science - par excellence in the field of Positive Sciences - moves between the two ends of a quasi-Manichean vector centered on the counterpoint between Man and the "Machine". And especially between the insincere admiration that leads to exaggerated estimates of the possibilities of modern Technology on the one hand and the ominous fear that cultivates painful, even eschatological, fantasies on the other.

This is due, in large part, to the fact that many "decide" in this matter without having the required scientific resources to understand, in an integrated way, the essence of Artificial Intelligence, especially through the necessary distinction between Intelligence and Consciousness. And primarily through the understanding that the essence of Intelligence allows, through the means of modern Technology, the...