Is there actually a difference between "wisdom" and pattern matching?
We often talk about AI doing "just pattern matching" as if it's somehow lesser than human intelligence. But I keep coming back to this question:
Aren't we the same?
Our neurons operate purely on physics electrochemical signals, nothing magical. Those signals produce our thoughts, decisions, and what we call "wisdom." Under the hood it's all just computations.
So why would there be a fundamental difference between:
computations happening in biological neurons
computations happening in simulated neurons
If consciousness and wisdom emerge from physics in our brains, what's the principled reason they couldn't emerge from other computational substrates?
Maybe "wisdom" is just pattern matching so complex it doesn't recognize itself as pattern matching.
I'm not claiming AI is conscious I genuinely don't know. But I think the dismissal of AI as "just pattern matching" is philosophically lazy if we don't apply the same scrutiny to our own minds.
Curious what others think.