Advances In The AI-Mind-Body Psychophysiological Connection Require These Vital Research Pursuits

In today’s column, I examine how the AI-mind-body connection can be further elicited via the advent of rigorous research pursuits. The AI-mind-body connection is an emerging topic. Generally, it goes like this: AI can impact the human mind, and we already know that the human mind can impact the human body; thus, AI can end up impacting the body through the mind-body connection. For my foundational discussion on the exciting topic of AI-mind-body, see the link here.

Research regarding AI-mind-body often leverages prevailing research on AI-mind and mind-body topics. This entails extending prior work in those two areas to explore new avenues of impact on a more holistic basis. Thus, studies of AI-mind can extend into the mind-body realm, and studies of mind-body can extend into the AI-mind realm. There is also a synergistic effect of the three elements of AI, mind, and body that can be investigated as an integral triad.

Let’s talk about it. This analysis of AI breakthroughs is part of my ongoing Forbes column coverage on the latest in AI, including identifying and explaining various impactful AI complexities (see the link here).

The Minds Problem

Much of the handwringing about AI is whether AI is going to become sentient and embody consciousness, often referred to as AI as a thinking machine. That is an important topic and one that I’ve continued to closely explore and analyze; see the link here. There is a quite different angle that also deserves rapt attention, and I’d like to place it on the table.

How will human minds change because of interacting with AI?

For my comprehensive tracing of how AI and psychology dovetail with each other, see the link here and the link here.

New Focus On AI-Mind-Body

A new area of interest goes beyond AI-mind and consists of the AI-mind-body connection. This is a coupling of the classic AI-mind and mind-body realms.