Category: crealectics
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Marx on Artificial Intelligence
Concern about machines replacing humans have been historically documented at least since the Destruction of Stocking Frames Act of 1812, authorizing death for those vandalizing machines, the famous Luddites. Karl Marx later summed up these fears (1992 [1867]) by stating that “within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productivity of labour are put…
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François Jullien: What is a concept?
From Socrates to Levinas, a short history (in French) of the core of philosophy, the idea of concept. A beautiful course with a deflated ending. Jullien understands the heroism of the concept, but fails to conceive clearly of the crealectics of the concept, between alterity, singularity, on the one hand, and universalisation, identification on the…
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The Naivety of Transhumanists
In the academic journal Bioethics, Schiller (2017) writes that ‘The Artificial Replacement Thesis suggests that we should replace our species with artificial creatures who are capable of living better lives’ (p. 393). This kind of argument reflect the typical transhumanism naivety regarding human history: humans have not waited for AI to do just what the…
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Infinitely Creative Spirit (Hegel and the Creal)
There is a very active Hegel Study Group on Facebook. If only for that reason we can say that Facebook is still useful. Today I posted the sentences below, let’s see how the conversation unfolds: “The supreme definition of the absolute is not that it is spirit in general, but that it is the Spirit absolutely…
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