There were a lot of very interesting comments on a previous link "What if Consciousness Came First" [1] that I think shoehorn into this discussion pretty well.

There were a lot of very interesting comments on a previous link "What if Consciousness Came First" [1] that I think shoehorn into this discussion pretty well. Someone brought up the question of if there was a formal "programming language" for philosophy. [2] One of the difficulties with discussing AI is that we don't know what intelligence is because we don't know what consciousness is. These are problems that are heavily steeped in philosophy, and if we ever want to work with philosophical concepts digitally, we need a proper programming language to do it with. Ideally, it would be nice to be able to write out philosophical concepts and social behaviors and moral stances in a form that could be used as a ML training set to try to integrate with AI/ML decision making. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20516482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20516482 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20518867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20518867