What do you mean by “naturalize” as a verb? What is “naturalizing normativity”?
Some people think that this form of metaphysical naturalism is bedrock stuff; that if we don’t accept it, the theists win, blah blah blah, so we must naturalize mentality and agency, it must exist on a continuum, we just need a theory which shows us how. Other people think we can have a non-reductive naturalism which takes as primitive the normative concepts found in biology and psychology.
Does this amount to you thinking that humans are humans because of some influence from outside of fundamental physics, which computers and non-human animals don’t share?
I don’t think I’ve seen the term “normative phenomena” before. So basically normative concepts are concepts in everyday language (“life”, “health”), which get messy if you try to push them too hard? But what are normative phenomena then? We don’t see or touch “life” or “health”, we see something closer to the actual stuff going on in the world and then we come up with everyday word-concepts for it that sort of work until they don’t.
It’s not really helping in that I still have no real intuition about what you’re going on about, and your AI critique seems to be aimed at something from 30 years ago instead of contemporary stuff like Omohundro’s Basic AI Drives paper (you describe AIs as being “without the desire to evade death, nourish itself, and protect a physical body”, the paper’s point is that AGIs operating in the physical world would have exactly that) or the whole deep learning explosion with massive datasets of the last few years (“we under-estimate by many orders of magnitude the volume of inputs needed to shape our “models.””, right now people are in a race to feed ginormous input sets to deep learning systems and probably aren’t stopping anytime soon).
Like, yeah. People can be really impressive, but unless you want to make an explicit case for the contrary, people here still think people are made of parts and there exists some way to go from a large cloud of hydrogen to people. If you think there’s some impossible gap between the human and the nonhuman worlds, then how do you think actual humans got here? Right now you seem to be just giving some sort of smug shrug of someone who on one hand doesn’t want to ask that question themselves because it’s corrosive to dignified pre-Darwin liberal arts sensibilities, and on the other hand tries to hint at people genuinely interested in the question that it’s a stupid question to ask and they should have read better scholarship to convince themselves of that.