Present-day cognitivism called cybernetics is related to past science, but yet it is also separated from the prevalent mistakes from the old roots of empirical knowledge. The main idea behind cognitivism is that intelligence in general, whether digital or biological, resembles computational representations of symbols. It even goes as far as Freud’s psychoanalytical theory of symbols loss in translation. In fact, cognitivism postulates that there exist symbols in our brains that we simply cannot bring to consciousness at all. This inability to solidify fundamental processes continues to challenge our self and our identity as a whole.
Related to the previous is a category of Buddhist teaching called Abhidarma and its five aggregates. The first of the five aggregates is based on the physical to emphasize that the self is related to our past, present, or future bodily cells. And according to the other aggregates, the self is composed of our feelings and our thoughts as DesCartes puts it. But as we believe that our self is not truly related to our experiences, we start to realize that it may be related instead purely to our brain and what is called momentariness, or a moment of consciousness, shadows of thoughts. However, the speed and spontaneity of this mindfulness is too erratic to be used as the definition of the self. In the end, cognitive science is presently not truly prominent in being the main source of enlightenment of the self since it lacks consideration of experiences.
If cognitive science does perfectly explain our self, how does that impact our values on artificial intelligence compared to our own human intelligence?
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