Artificial Intelligence and the Phenomenology of Human Intelligence: A Study in the Philosophy of Hubert Dreyfus

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Philosophy Department Arts Faculty Fayoum University

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This paper sheds light on the phenomenological interpretation of the nature of human understanding that makes us able to deal intelligently with the world, through a comparison between the nature of artificial intelligence and human intelligence from the perspective of Hubert Dreyfus. Dreyfus adopts the phenomenological interpretation of human experience and human intelligence. This phenomenological interpretation gives priority to the practical and emotional aspects of human experience in the world, emphasizing the role of the human body in interpreting the possibilities available to humans in this world. He believes that human intelligence is the result of the role of the body and its non-conceptual skillful coping with the world. Hence, the role of bodily skills cannot be overlooked in the phenomenology of human intelligence. For this reason, artificial intelligence cannot be equated with human intelligence. Dreyfus considers skillful coping to provide an explanation for human understanding as a model of human action based on a structure of non-conceptual bodily skills, from which we proceed to higher levels of construction. Thus, Dreyfus sees the acting self in the world as the embodied self that does not need a set of formal rules that the human mind operates according to, as proponents of artificial intelligence imagine. It does not require a set of mental representations as an intermediary between humans and the world.

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