God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning OGieblyn Meghan
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning OGieblyn Meghan A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of…
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning OGieblyn Meghan
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness--i.e., souls--might be illusions. - "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." --Phillip Lopate "[A] truly fantastic book."--Ezra KleinFor most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding.
Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital