Traditional sources of morality are being replaced by networks that determine morality based on open source consensus. Commenting on: “the share of people who describe themselves as “not religious” increased rapidly since 2012-14.”

@johnrobb Oct 20, 2019

It’s inadequate to remain in individual-focused frameworks; e.g. neither guns nor people are responsible for gun violence, but rather the gun-person assemblage they form together.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities” Critical Inquiry 42:4 (2016): 783-808

Sped-up and overloaded we are becoming machine-like, skimming with emotions and thinking alike.

The Erosion of Deep Literacy Adam Garfinkle Spring 2020

Illich — his spirituality if we can put it that way for brevity's sake was

something ... intimate ...it was very real and ... [not] that kind of

dragging it out in order to make his points more convincing or to give it a

kind of authority that's borrowed from religion as if the faith becomes a

means towards something other than itself

DO 93 LM Sacassas

Social signaling affects the group; pulling on one corner of the social fabric stretches all members of the network.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions” Critical Inquiry 43:1 (2016): 32-55.

Technical systems can be fully cognitive, even if they aren’t fully alive. Cognition is the process of interpreting information within contexts that connect it with meaning.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions” Critical Inquiry 43:1 (2016): 32-55.

We are seekers of truth, not possessors of truth. We are possessed by truth; we do not possess truth. God is the owner of truth; the only owner of the whole truth.

“Do We Mistake Our Passion for Truth with Its Possession?” Reuven Kimelman 3.4.2020

Cognitive capabilities (i.e. flexibility, adaptability, evolvability) mean cognitive technologies are ethical actors in the assemblages they form with biological life forms.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities” Critical Inquiry 42:4 (2016): 783-808

‘Inside this network [the group matrix] the individual is conceived as a

nodal point. The individual, in other words, is not conceived as a closed

but as an open system’ (Foulkes 1964: 118).

Jason Maratos Resonance and Reciprocity: Selected Papers by Dennis

Brown 2013 p.255.