This article goes along with what I was writing. It turns out it was published one day earlier than my…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VIII. Darwin: Man in a sequence
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Darwin: Man in a sequence
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was the thinker who added a historical perspective to the picture Linnaeus had painted: animal species that look like each other in their skeleton necessarily evolved from a common ancestor. Hence the […]
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VII. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Being more generous when defining Man
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Being more generous when defining Man
The question of the “us” extends however beyond the borders of the Homo sapiens species. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in his Essay on the origin of Inequality held the view that we’ve been […]
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VI. Linnæus: Man taken down from his pedestal
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Linnæus: Man taken down from his pedestal
The biblical representation of Man as a creature special in the eyes of God suffered a first serious blow in 1735, when Carl Linnæus (1707-1778) classified the human species along animals, labelling it […]
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. V. The New Testament: Reciprocity
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The New Testament: Reciprocity
In the East, with totemism, which Durkheim and Mauss identified with China’s thought of archaic times there is no crucial divide between Man, the chosen creature in the eyes of God, and the other creatures placed […]
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. IV. The Old Testament: Creation
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The Old Testament: Creation
For almost two millennia the dominant view of humankind in the West was grounded in the biblical account: Adam and Eve being made in the likeness of God, while nature was defined by God as being […]
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. III. East and West
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East and West
In the conceptualisation of the advent of artificial intelligence on a par with human intelligence, there are major differences between the West and the East: between the civilisations and the range of cultures […]
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. II. Decentring and refocusing the definition of “us”
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Decentring and refocusing the definition of ‘us’
Who do we think we should protect as a last resort, the members of a strictly defined ‘us’ with some and a vaguely defined ‘us’ among others, when things go wrong, […]
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?
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I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?
If we examine this essential question of understanding who we are and what we are experiencing at this unprecedented moment, we see that the history of humanity has offered […]
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A review of « L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité » by the two chatting IAs at NotebookLM
L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité was released by Textuel publishers in Paris in March of this year.
Here is what the chatting IAs at NotebookLM, a Google product think about it.
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“the marvellous powers of the brain emerge not from any single, uniformly structured connectionist network but from highly evolved arrangements…
When the entangled narrative is based on the Bible, the problem is the Bible.
I intend to read the Krichmar paper, thanks for mentioning it. I looked in my library, I’ve got a 1987…
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
Do Androids dream of electric sheeps ? Yes. Thanks Paul.
You say that A machine with only primary consciousness will probably have to come first. That’s the way evolution proceeded:…
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I fear your views of AI are pretty much outdated. They pre-date in any case neural networks. What you are…
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