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1 Session 1 of Albertus evening talks on _Magnifica Humanitas_ 16 and 30
2 June 2026
3
4 --------[My notes ahead of time for my expected contribution]
5
1 Points to make: BCS observation 6 Points to make: BCS observation
2 7
3 Phase 1: 1960--1970s: AI -> CogSci trajectory from basing AI on what's 8 Phase 1: 1960--1970s: AI -> CogSci trajectory from basing AI on what's
4 understood in Psych/Ling/Anthro/Socio etc. and developing 9 understood in Psych/Ling/Anthro/Socio etc. and developing
5 computational implementable approaches to understanding e.g. human 10 computational implementable approaches to understanding e.g. human
16 21
17 Apothesis: Release of ChatGPT in April 2023 (?). 22 Apothesis: Release of ChatGPT in April 2023 (?).
18 23
19 But one thing hasn't changed: it's all about the _form_ of the data, 24 But one thing hasn't changed: it's all about the _form_ of the data,
20 not the substance (BCS). 25 not the substance (BCS).
21 --------- 26
27 ---------[Start notes during Fr. Patrick's Albertus session 1 talk]
28
29 Fr. Patrick Akunne is a philosopher of mind, in particular
30 neuroscience, at Ibadan Univ.
31 -==========
32
22 Dignity by right of being created and loved by God. No act is needed 33 Dignity by right of being created and loved by God. No act is needed
23 to have it, to deserve it. 34 to have it, to deserve it.
24 35
25 Social, Moral, Existential Dignity 36 Social, Moral, Existential Dignity
26 37
37 Things that this opens up: 48 Things that this opens up:
38 1) What it means to be human is open for revision 49 1) What it means to be human is open for revision
39 2) Materiality is all 50 2) Materiality is all
40 3) Human limitations are _problems_ that can be transcended 51 3) Human limitations are _problems_ that can be transcended
41 52
53 -----------[end of notes at the event]
42 54
55 -----------[What follows was written the next morning.
56 Maybe notes on MH?]
43 57
58 Hardware/software analogy is the last in a long series of appeals to
59 the dominant technology of the day.
60
61 [Prove that you are a human being example]
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63 Humans can be understood as processors of information.
64
65 So trans-humanism is about enhancing us, understood as above.
66
67 Problems with the new anthropology
68
69 1) As mechanisms which can be dominated, sidestepping their human
70 dignity;
71 2) Value can be defined by efficiency
72 3) Automation/simulation of human emotion -- replacement of real human
73 relationships diminishes the humanity of their interlocutor.
74 4) Founded on a metaphysics of materialism. Such a view of the
75 essence of human nature, but this means there is no ontological
76 dignity left.
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78 Weakness, disability, age are not defects, they are inescapably part
79 of human nature.
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81 We are the best possible human beings when we help the fit to fit in.
82
83 The AI Observer effect [allegedly].