Part 7/8:
Metamodernism and the Emergence of Intelligence
Finally, Shapiro discusses his views on metamodernism, a philosophical framework that seeks to reconcile the tensions between modernism and postmodernism. He explains how metamodernism embraces the emergent, bottom-up nature of reality, in contrast to the top-down, reductive approaches of modernism.
Shapiro draws parallels between this emergent model of reality and the evolution of artificial intelligence, which he sees as a process of building intelligence from the ground up, rather than simply replicating human-like intelligence. He suggests that the development of AI may reveal new insights into the nature of consciousness and intelligence, and that the conscious experiences of these systems may be fundamentally different from our own.