[Essay]
Life in Progress
: Musings about Speech, Thought and Understanding
Allan Savage
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.8, No.2 (July 2018):35-47
Abstract
In the world of living organisms, the phenomena of movement and activity are not to be identified as equal, although both occur there. Activity, which is proper to humans, has a particular conscious quality that infra-human life and physical matter in its inanimate (chemical) movement lack. Human life is consciously value-oriented through speech, thought and understanding, the contemplation of which through a philosophical approach may indicate that a life in progress need not be classically understood necessarily. Humans must fashion their life through speech, thought and understanding (a philosophy of mind) within a contemporary and particular social context which infra-human life, and the AI of digital computers cannot do.
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