Title: COULD AI INDUCE MIND WANDERING AND VISIONS?
Author:
Prof dr m s s el namaki
Abstract:
Mind wandering is a daily event. Research reveals that 96% of American adults state that they experience mind wandering on a daily basis (Singer & McCraven, 1961), and it occupies up to 50% of the waking day (Kane et al., 2007; Killings worth & Gilbert, 2010; Klinger, 1999, 2009; Klinger, Miles, & Cox, 1987). Mind wandering is ubiquitous to the human experience and may be the brain’s default process (Buckner, Andrews-Hanna, & Schacter, 2008; Christ off, Gordon, Smallwood, Smith, & Schooler, 2009; Mason et al., 2007; Raichle et al., 2001) The process implies the diversion of thought away from immediate tasks and immediate environment. It could also mean reference to task-unrelated thoughts.
The concept could relate to the awareness phase of artificial intelligence. Awareness implies recognition of forces within and without the environment. An individual could become aware of forces, cognitive or otherwise, within himself. And he could also be aware of currents and forces beyond his immediate recognition. This awareness could be tantamount to mind wandering.
A state of awareness could lead to “wandering” as a state of mind as well the conceiving of a future image of things to come or “visions”.
This will be the focus of this article. It is qualitative analysis. Conceptual foundations of both artificial intelligence and mind wandering ere explored and synergy or areas of overlapping are demarked. Research is based on work done on both issues.
The article aims at proposing a set of hypotheses projecting a relationship between the two phenomena.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, psychology, mind wandering, vision.
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