钱 宏：哲学，该复活了！

哲学，该复活了！

一切历史，都是思想史。

山姆·奥特曼说，开发 AGI 的最大挑战之一，是使这些系统能够进行基本的理解和创新。就像Isaac Newton发明微积分一样，AI 模型也需要能够超越现有知识，创造新的知识的能力。

Newton的名字，还有Descartes、Kant、Heidegger、Wittgenstein、Prigogine、Lacan的名字，意味着什么？意味着在人类思想的天穹：

没有“愛之智慧”哲学的复活，人们只能匍匐在地，相互纠缠冲突，还美其名曰“接地气”，而无法仰望星空，俯念苍生。

如果是这样，那么AGI的开发，就不仅仅是技术、商业和现行伦理问题，而是一个超主权、超文明，甚至超人权（三超）的哲学-经济学思维方式、价值取向，及生活方式创新与再选择的问题！

所以，迄今为止，围绕AI、AGI开发的争议和对策（包括此次OpenAI的突然变故），无论谁输谁赢，都是人类的输赢——乐观也好，悲观也罢，所谓有效加速主义（e/acc），抑或超级“爱”对齐，由人性治理AI或争取政府监管AI，商业化或使命化，都难免进退失据，反反复复难得要领！

目前，AI对“生意”和“生活”的影响，才刚刚开始，远未进入热身，而处于有境无边的人类，此時此刻，过于自卑或自负、过于悲觀或樂觀、过于焦慮和冷靜，陷入“热锅上蚂蚁”，或“温水煮青蛙”，抑或“病急亂投醫”狀態，其結果都将是致命的。

我想说的是，包括大家耳熟能详甚至挂在嘴边的区块链“去中心化”“分布式”……及其Web3技術支持，都只是一种表象，其本质是生命原点（质点、结点、节点）的交互主體共生。

AI始于“人机共生”（Human beings-Computer Symbiosis），无论是AGI（普通人工智能），还是超级智能（Artificial Super Intelligence），抑或生物AI（Biological Artificial Intelligence）其终极形態，都是Human beings-Computer Symbiosism 即人机交互主体共生！

但很有趣的是，OpenAI实验室目前开发的AI DAO Network，是一个基于OpenAI（Chatgpt）创建的去中心化金融协议，致力于打通人工智能AI和加密世界的桥梁。这里的“AI”，谐音中文的“愛”，“DAO”，谐音“道”，也就是共生智慧——即爱之智慧，也似乎已经告知了人类新的演化的方式与目标——间性交互主體共生！

我想起了2011年参加中国科学院高能物理所“超光速中微子研讨会”上，来自美国的科普作家张操约我写的一篇回应霍金关于“哲学死了”论断的文章，《一个东方人对霍金的回应！——哲学死了，还是回到哲学？》。

始于19-20世纪之交，在你我中心引入“他者”的关系过程哲学关键概念——间性交互主体，又叫主体间性（Intersubjectivity），传递的是生命自组织与外连接动態平衡——共生叙事的方式方法，做Web3、区块链、元宇宙、OpenAI（ChatGPT）或 Google Deep Mind（Gemini雙子星）开发者，都是共生敘事或全息共生的自发或自觉的不同作者、藝術家！

這就提醒全人类：一切做AI开发者应用者，都需要懂得质能信、你我他、身心灵交互主体共生哲学！

今天，从轴心时代迈入共生时代之际，马斯克们的担忧、奥特曼伊利雅们的磨合展望，昭示人们渐渐懂得：

沒有人文的科技是危險（创新胁迫）的，而沒有科技的人文是愚昧（巫术盲目）的，但是更不能忘却了：缺乏哲学思維和價值的科技与人文，依然是沒有方向感沒有靈魂的Flight……

惟有新价值、新思维、新生活的创造，永无止境，哲学、科技、人文形態，将继续自相互作用共襄生长，追寻和展现无限可能的世界，而让大大小小的“任何统治世界的帝国政治企图成为不可能”！

从“自然世”（Naturaropocena）的共生起源，到“人类世”（Anthropocene）的共生底线，再从人类世到“地球世”（Earthropocene）的共生灵魂，惟有自组织力与外连接平衡力的共生与非共生，決定人们展现张力、穿透力和潜力组合，及其相应的荣辱、毁誉、成敗……

我們看到的真相是：“沒有敌人，只有病人；若有敌人，就是自己。”值此共生范式转换，新旧交替之间隙，对于人类过于自卑和自负、悲观和乐观、保守和激进、焦虑和冷静，以及各种机会主义冲动，皆作如是观。

因此，整個人类需要一次特別的情感护理，即共生情感护理，包括：Emotional External Care of Symbiosism & Emotional Sefl-Care of Symbiosism ！

这是一次从物理到生理，从心理到伦理，从历史性到共时性情感护理的再选择、再出发！

最后，与其说AI和控制AI是难控之“矛”和亟需之“盾”的对抗关系，不如说分明是“动力系统”与“制动系统”的共生关系。

既然是“动力系统”与“制动系统”的共生关系，那么，经典人类不是“替”或“代表”AI发表宣言，而是“AI产业担当”相关的产业、产品的“约定”“公约”问题，所以，人类负责任的个体、共同体和Trust组织，应该签署一份《全球AI公约》或《人机共生公约》。

这样一份“Global AI Convention”(AIC)或“Man-Machine Convention”(MMC)，对于AI、AGI研发者、设计者、生产者具有一些底线约定，比如任何情况下，AI、AGI都不能伤害人类，无论是多数人类还是少数人类，彻底摒弃“为了多数人的利益可以牺牲少数人”的乌托邦信条，如科幻作家阿西莫夫提出的“机器人三大定律”（Three Laws of Robotics），第一定律：机器人不得伤害人类个体，或者目睹人类个体将遭受危险而袖手不管，除非这违反了机器人学第零定律（机器人不得伤害整体人类，或坐视整体人类受到伤害）。第二定律：机器人必须服从人给予它的命令，当该命令与第零定律或者第一定律冲突时例外。第三定律：机器人在不违反第零、第一、第二定律的情况下要尽可能保护自己的生存。同时，人类也不能故意给讲求效率的机器人出“伦理难题”（如Trolley problem）。再比如AGI不得拥有“自主惩罚人类”（这是经典人类自己的事）或灭绝任何物种的司法权限，并给AGI设定“违约自毁机制”等等。这都属于“强者自律原则”范畴（参照交通规则中处理交通事故的最基本原则）。

心系化解文明冲突、地缘冲突、社会阶级冲突，尤其是新旧冲突，人工智能、通用人工智能与人类智慧和幸福之间可能发生冲突的人们，亟需发起一项超主权、超文明、甚至超人权的《全球共生公约》（Global Symbiosism Convention）签名活动。

而《全球AI公约》或《人机共生公约》当属超主权、超地缘、超文明的Global Symbiosism Convention签字活动的一部分诉求。

富有地球情怀的人们，行动起来！

孞烎2023年11月24日于温哥华

“Philosophy, It’s Time for a Resurgence!

All history is the history of ideas.

Sam Altman said that one of the biggest challenges in developing AGI is to make these systems capable of basic understanding and innovation. Similar to how Isaac Newton invented calculus, AI models also need the ability to go beyond existing knowledge and create new knowledge.

The names of Newton, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Prigogine, Lacan—what do they mean? They signify something in the celestial vault of human thought. Without the resurrection of the philosophy of “愛之智慧” (the wisdom of love), people can only crawl on the ground, entangled in conflicts, claiming to be “down-to-earth,” unable to gaze at the stars, and neglecting the well-being of all.

If that’s the case, the development of AGI is not just a matter of technical, commercial, and current ethical issues. It involves a philosophical-economic mindset, a value orientation, and the innovation and re-selection of lifestyle on a super-sovereign, super-civilizational, and even super-human rights (三超) level.

Therefore, the controversies and strategies surrounding AI and AGI development, including the sudden changes in OpenAI, are not just about who wins or loses. It’s about the victory or defeat of humanity—whether optimistic or pessimistic. The so-called effective accelerationism (e/acc), or super “love” alignment, whether governed by human nature or seeking government regulation of AI, commercialization, or mission-oriented approaches—all face challenges and uncertainties.

Currently, the impact of AI on “business” and “life” is just beginning, far from reaching its peak. In this vast and boundless human realm, whether individuals are too humble or too arrogant, too pessimistic or too optimistic, too anxious or too calm, falling into a state of “ants on a hot pot,” or “boiling a frog in warm water,” or “frantically seeking medical treatment,” the results will be fatal.

What I want to say is that including well-known and often discussed concepts like “decentralization” and “distributed” in blockchain, along with its support for Web3 technology, are just manifestations. Their essence lies in the symbiosis of interactive entities originating from the life point (particle, node, point).

AI began with “Human beings-Computer Symbiosis,” whether it’s AGI (General Artificial Intelligence), superintelligence (Artificial Super Intelligence), or biological AI (Biological Artificial Intelligence). The ultimate form is Human beings-Computer Symbiosism, i.e., symbiosis of human-computer interactive entities.

Interestingly, the AI DAO Network currently being developed by the OpenAI laboratory is a decentralized financial protocol based on OpenAI (ChatGPT). It aims to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence (AI) and the encrypted world. The “AI” here, homophonic with the Chinese word “愛” (love), and “DAO,” homophonic with “道” (the way), signifies symbiotic wisdom—wisdom of love. It seems to have already communicated a new way and goal of human evolution—the symbiosis of interactive entities.

Beginning at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the introduction of the key philosophical concept of “interacting entities” or “intersubjective entities” into the relationship process centered on self and others conveys the dynamic balance of life’s self-organization and external connection—the narrative method of symbiosis. Whether you are a developer in Web3, blockchain, metaverse, OpenAI (ChatGPT), or Google Deep Mind (Gemini Twins), you are a spontaneously or consciously different author, an artist of symbiotic narratives or holographic symbiosis.

This reminds all of humanity: everyone involved in AI development needs to understand the philosophy of quality-energy informeition, the interaction subject symbiosis of self and others, and the body-mind-soul!

Today, as we transition from the axial age to the era of symbiosis, the concerns of Musk and the prospects of Ultraman Ilyas are gradually understood: technology without humanity is dangerous (innovation coercion), and humanity without technology is ignorant (blind to magic). However, it seems to have forgotten: technology and humanities lacking philosophical thinking and values are still a flight without direction or soul.

Only the creation of new values, new thinking, and a new way of life is endless. Philosophy, technology, and human forms will continue to interact and grow together, seeking and demonstrating an infinitely possible world!

From the symbiotic origin of the ‘natural world’ (Naturaropocena) to the symbiotic baseline of the ‘human era’ (Anthropocene), and then from the human era to the ‘earth era’ (Earthropocene) with a symbiotic soul—only the symbiosis and non-symbiosis of self-organizing power and external connection balance power determine the combination of tension, penetration, and potential display, along with their corresponding honors, disgrace, success, and failure…

What we see as the truth is: there are no enemies, only patients; if there are enemies, it’s oneself. At this paradigm shift of symbiosis, in the gap between the transition of old and new, observing human tendencies toward self-deprecation and self-confidence, pessimism and optimism, conservatism and radicalism, anxiety and calmness, and various opportunistic impulses, one can only perceive it this way.

Therefore, humanity as a whole needs a special emotional care, namely, symbiotic emotional care, including Emotional External Care of Symbiosism & Emotional Self-Care of Symbiosism!

This is a re-selection and re-initiation of emotional care from the physical to the physiological, from the psychological to the ethical, from historical to synchronic!

Finally, rather than saying that AI and controlling AI are confrontations between a difficult-to-control ‘spear’ and a urgently-needed ‘shield,’ it is more accurate to say that it is a symbiotic relationship between a ‘power system’ and a ‘braking system.’

Since it is a symbiotic relationship between a ‘power system’ and a ‘braking system,’ then, classical humans are not making declarations on behalf of AI; they are ‘agreements’ and ‘conventions’ related to the industries and products undertaken by the ‘AI industry.’ Therefore, responsible individuals, communities, and Trust organizations should sign a ‘Global AI Convention’ or ‘Man-Machine Convention.’

Such a ‘Global AI Convention’ (AIC) or ‘Man-Machine Convention’ (MMC) serves as a baseline agreement for AI and AGI developers, designers, and producers, specifying, for example, that under no circumstances can AI or AGI harm humanity (completely discarding the utopian creed of ‘sacrificing a few for the benefit of the majority’), and that AGI cannot have the ‘autonomous punishment of humans’ (this is a matter for classical humans themselves) or judicial authority to exterminate species, along with setting up a ‘default self-destruction mechanism’ for AGI, and so on. All of this falls under the category of the ‘strong self-discipline principle’ (referring to the most basic principle of handling traffic accidents in traffic rules).

Caring for the resolution of conflicts in civilization, geopolitics, social class, especially new and old conflicts, those concerned about potential conflicts between artificial intelligence, general artificial intelligence, and human wisdom and happiness urgently need to launch a ‘Global Symbiosism Convention’ signature campaign.

The ‘Global AI Convention’ or ‘Man-Machine Convention’ should be part of the demands of the Global Symbiosism Convention signature campaign, which belongs to the domain of the super-sovereign, super-civilization, and even super-human rights.

People with a sense of Earth’s conscience, take action!

Xin Yan November 24, 2023, Vancouver