AI, IO e Tu
AI, IO e Tu The AI, the Self, and You In Quelli della notte (“Those of the Night”), a cult late-night Italian TV show hosted by Renzo Arbore in 1985, the comic character “Prof. Pazzaglia” would invariably perform a sketch asking: “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?” — perhaps unconsciously echoing the title of a painting by Paul Gauguin — and then conclude with: “Ah, if only we knew, if only we knew,” which he attributed (falsely, he claimed) to Chekhov. The “Professor” Pazzaglia embodied what philosopher David Chalmers would later call the hard problem of consciousness — the difficulty of explaining how subjective experience arises from physical processes. It is a problem that philosophy and science continue to wrestle with, and that pervades our daily lives as well. The question “Where is the mind located?” remains unanswered. Research abounds, but no single theory has gained universal accepta...
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