Moral Singularity, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence in The Algorithmic Age of Islamic Economics, Finance, Society, and Science

Masudul Alam Choudhury; Muhammad Nazmul Hoque; Nor Balkish  Zakaria; Naila Erum

doi:10.21154/invest.v5i1.10223

Authors

Masudul Alam Choudhury Cape Breton University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7824-9514
Muhammad Nazmul Hoque Universiti Teknologi MARA
Nor Balkish Zakaria Universiti Teknologi MARA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1795-9854
Naila Erum Universiti Teknologi MARA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0806-2882

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21154/invest.v5i1.10223

Keywords:

Algorithm, Artificial intelligence, Consciousness, Moral-material integration, Qur’an, Tawhid (monotheism), Unity of knowledge

Abstract

This paper analytically argues that received scientific doctrine and Islamic scholarship, by being methodologically independent of the principle of pairing the moral and material essence of events, have left a significant gap in understanding reality. Such a gap is referred to as exogenously independent, that is, as existing merely as a moral singularity in the methodological worldview of knowledge that otherwise pervades “everything.’ This latter essence pronounces the central role of Tawhid as the pervasiveness of the conscious continuum. The pervasive nature of the conscious continuum in Tawhidi unity of knowledge brings out the analytical power to explain the core of the socio-scientific methodology of pairing (complementarities). This study derives a logical formal model of the interrelations between the centerpiece of the unity of knowledge, consciousness, configuration of epistemic moral-materiality, and socio-scientific intellection in the post-modern algorithmic age. For example, this vastness is inherent in the new epistemic configuration of the AI regime of the algorithmic age. Such an intellectual vista of divinely induced formal inherences in the order of reality is pointed out in this paper as pertaining to the new episteme of socio-scientific moral-materiality holism. A comparative methodological approach was used. The emergent subtle areas of discourse form the originality of the paper, its focus, and its theme.

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