Simon Penny - Making Sense - Fantastic 4

Key Question: Penny claims that computation relegates visual and performing arts to second-rate intellectualism. Do you agree?

Penny suggests the dualism between mind and body does not translate into computerized input and output. The material relationship between our mind’s thoughts and our body’s actions is in fact abstract. In the 1980’s due to the surge in microprocessors, technologies got into the hands of those who didn’t fully understand its effect. Thus incorrect assumptions were made about technological culture and how it should be socially integrated. Penny also tactically disarms the notion of cognitivism or mind/body division and discusses the embodiment ideology of sensorial and cognitively being inexorably linked. In how this embodiment fit into the realm of AI Penny explains the notions of intelligence in computers has historically been approached in a Mind over body, penny explains that a logical engine is not capable of processing a world without rules. As humans we problem solve quickly and are adaptable through our senses, true intelligence in AI would have to master the things we do simply.