Talk 1: Is the Human Being an Artificial Intelligence?
Thanks to research in artificial intelligence, we are in fact also developing new perspectives on human intelligence. In light of findings in fields such as behaviorism, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and genetics, many thinkers have begun to argue that humans, too, are “programmed.” In light of these developments, it seems we will need to reconsider many of the things we believe to be uniquely human: free will, memory, love, aesthetics, language… In this online talk with academic Dr. Umut Eldem, we will discuss what artificial intelligence research tells us about human beings.

Taking as its starting point the play “Uncanny Valley,” currently being screened online at Beykoz Kundura, the talk will follow in the footsteps of thinkers such as Hubert Dreyfus, Jacques Derrida and Benjamin Libet to open up for discussion concepts such as the philosophy of technology, behaviorism, free will and philosophical anthropology.

Keywords
Uncanny Valley, Philosophy of Technology, Behaviorism, Free Will, Philosophical Anthropology
Thinkers: Hubert Dreyfus, Jacques Derrida, Benjamin Libet