Philosophers Predicted AI?! Plato to Hegel 🧐

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[00:00:00]It's pretty radical as an idea that human consciousness and action can transform divine consciousness. [music] And when you put this next to Teilhard's vision of the noosphere converging toward the omega point, you see some similar themes. Individual minds as part of a larger whole. Spiritual evolution as a real process. The idea that we're moving toward is some kind of ultimate unity. Now, if you want to go all the way back, you could look at the Neoplatonists and you're going to find some similar ideas.

[00:00:29]Plotinus writing in the 3rd century described realities emanating from the one through the divine nous, the intellect down into souls and [music] matter.

[00:00:38]And when consciousness for Platonus, it wasn't something that emerged from matter, it was fundamental to matter.

[00:00:45]Matter was actually a kind of dimming or a degradation of consciousness and not the other way around.

[00:00:52]Individual minds could ascend back up through contemplation towards mystical union with [music] the nous and ultimately the one. Now, later Hegel in the 19th century developed [music] this with his concept of absolute spirit.

[00:01:03]Hegel thought that consciousness evolved through history >> [music] >> in dialectical stages, thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, and each stage transcended and incorporated the previous one.

[00:01:15]History itself is the process of spirit coming [music] to know itself, becoming self-conscious and achieving freedom.

[00:01:23]He saw collective institutions like law and politics, art, religion, philosophy as manifestations of this [music] evolving spirit.

[00:01:30]So, Teilhard's noosphere maps directly into Hegel's absolute spirit, but with biological evolution as the mechanism instead of just cultural history.