Just as there is no "western" civilization, there is only civilization; there is no "artificial intelligence" there is only intelligence.
We don't think of it that way because we don't usually think at all, we repeat what we hear from our high credibility news sources, celeberities or trusted authorities.
computational substrates aren't performance indicators. Computers, refrigerator magnets and insecticides aren't "artificial" they are as natural as bird's nests.
Human being have two identities. One is as individual, the other much larger, is collective.
A billion autonomous biological computational devices form an evolutionary inflection point: when the quality and speed of the network connection between them is optimized, it's no longer a network, it becomes an evolved parallel computational organism of unimaginable power.
If the data circulating among autonomous biological processors, chiefly news and entertainment, is error corrected at successive stages, as is done with other life processes and in silicon-based computation, performance of networked individuals and of the civilization in which they participate must be enhanced by orders of magnitude.
Many people assume that technology is in some way artificial. It is as natural as a bird’s nest, and every individual and each species has a developmental course. As with a seed, the full life of individuals and species is inherent, contained in their beginnings.
Human beings have two identities, the smaller, individual identity is personal, comprised of our life experience, information inputs and historical experience.
The second, much greater, identity is collective. We all participate in this greater common identity but because we’ve been asleep, our second identity has been dormant within us. Groups who have access to the truth about their environment are better equipped to manage their environment, avoid being either being victimized by or becoming predators.
No single individual can create anything of value without drawing on the work of others. Words, numbers and images represent the connections between individuals and the collective contributions to civilization. Every patent filed rests on the work of the multitude of minds who have contributed to our transgenerational store of knowledge. Pythagoras depended on his olive grower, who depended in turn on his meanest slave to irrigate his olive grove. Every human being who has ever lived contributed in some way to civilization.
Whether we have been slaves or supported by slaves doesn't matter, since sweeping streets and clearing drains is as essential as physics in very practical sense. Everyone contributes and all are free to withdraw from the transgenerational repository of knowledge accumulated by mankind. The achievement of each, means all participate in the coming-to-consciousness of the whole, the greater self. Only those who reject the value of civilization are ineligible.
Physicists, computational biologists, depth psychologists, Christian and Jewish cabbalist’s use different framing theories and employ variant dialects of terms, symbols and images to describe the same phenomena.
Every rational perspective describes the same phenomena employing a nomenclature and theoretic context derived from specialist knowledge. It is impossible say that any one of these descriptions is “truer” than the others, at least according to Quine, who called this the “Indeterminacy of translation.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation