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The ability to use one’s own understanding is a challenge, not a given. Luhmann
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
As Marshall McLuhan once observed, “Every extension is also an amputation.” The wheel extends the foot, and in doing so, removes the necessity of walking. The book extends memory, and in doing so, weakens the habit of remembering. With AI, what is extended is the head — the seat of thought, language, judgment, and becoming. And what is amputated is
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My self-appointed mission: to think and feel my way into our darkening future, trace out the pathways before us, game out our options, and along the way — amidst my own splutterings of hope and despair — take good notes and draw a few maps that might be useful to all of us.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The brain is often described today as the hardware that “runs” the software of the mind. Cognitive systems are spoken of as algorithms: vision is an algorithm, and so are attention, language acquisition, and memory.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
We need the mental models provided by our technology, the words we make up for its concepts and metaphors, in order to describe and properly understand that analogous processes are already at play in the more-than-human world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities” Critical Inquiry 42:4 (2016): 783-808