Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Cornelia Klinger
Abstract
My point of departure lies with the recent advances of ICT and biotechnology/ life sciences into Converging Technologies (CT) of microelectronics and microbiology. CT encompass Nano- Bio- Info- Technologies plus Cognitive Science (NBIC). The most interesting effect from a philosophical perspective is the dissolution of dualisms that were deeply engrained in the Western symbolic order: human:animal, organic:mechanic; form:matter, sign (σῆμα): body (σῶμα). On the societal and political levels these groundbreaking developments are mirrored in the dissolution of the separation of spheres along the lines of work:life; production:reproduction; public:private. The second part of this contribution focuses on the effects of these developments on the relations among genders and generations as well as on the various kinds of care activities (for the young, the old, the sick, the handicapped and for all of us in everyday life). On the one hand, we observe liberating and encouraging results on all sides of love-andcare- relationships; on the other hand, there are new and unprecedented threats connected to “global tech giants […] sowing the seeds of an economy predicated on ‘biopower’” (Margarethe Vestager, 2019).
Abstract
My point of departure lies with the recent advances of ICT and biotechnology/ life sciences into Converging Technologies (CT) of microelectronics and microbiology. CT encompass Nano- Bio- Info- Technologies plus Cognitive Science (NBIC). The most interesting effect from a philosophical perspective is the dissolution of dualisms that were deeply engrained in the Western symbolic order: human:animal, organic:mechanic; form:matter, sign (σῆμα): body (σῶμα). On the societal and political levels these groundbreaking developments are mirrored in the dissolution of the separation of spheres along the lines of work:life; production:reproduction; public:private. The second part of this contribution focuses on the effects of these developments on the relations among genders and generations as well as on the various kinds of care activities (for the young, the old, the sick, the handicapped and for all of us in everyday life). On the one hand, we observe liberating and encouraging results on all sides of love-andcare- relationships; on the other hand, there are new and unprecedented threats connected to “global tech giants […] sowing the seeds of an economy predicated on ‘biopower’” (Margarethe Vestager, 2019).
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Acknowledgements VII
- Introduction: Affirmative and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 1
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Part 1: Challenging “Strong AI” from the Perspective of Human Agency
- The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence 17
- Merits and Limits of AI: Philosophical Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Praxis-Related Hermeneutical Reason 33
- Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 51
- Outsourcing the Brain, Optimizing the Body: Retrotopian Projections of the Human Subject 79
- Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 101
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Part 2: Examining Merits and Limits of Applied AI
- AI’s Winograd Moment; or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive Science 127
- Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity 151
- Why Neuroenhancement is a Philosophical Issue 167
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index 181
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Part 3: Encounters with Artificial Beings in Film, Literature, and Theater
- Dark Ecology and Digital Images of Entropy: A Brief Survey of the History of Cinematic Morphing and the Computer Graphics of Artificial Intelligence 209
- Sentience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement in US-American Fiction and Film: Thinking With and Without Consciousness 225
- “I, Robot”: Artificial Intelligence and Fears of the Posthuman 237
- AI on Stage: A Cross-Cultural Check-Up and the Case of Canada and John Mighton 261
- Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Soul Machines: (Re‐)Configuring Empathy between Bodies, Knowledge, and Power 287
- List of contributors 309
- Index of Authors 315
- Index of Subjects 319
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Acknowledgements VII
- Introduction: Affirmative and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 1
-
Part 1: Challenging “Strong AI” from the Perspective of Human Agency
- The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence 17
- Merits and Limits of AI: Philosophical Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Praxis-Related Hermeneutical Reason 33
- Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 51
- Outsourcing the Brain, Optimizing the Body: Retrotopian Projections of the Human Subject 79
- Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 101
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Part 2: Examining Merits and Limits of Applied AI
- AI’s Winograd Moment; or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive Science 127
- Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity 151
- Why Neuroenhancement is a Philosophical Issue 167
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index 181
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Part 3: Encounters with Artificial Beings in Film, Literature, and Theater
- Dark Ecology and Digital Images of Entropy: A Brief Survey of the History of Cinematic Morphing and the Computer Graphics of Artificial Intelligence 209
- Sentience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement in US-American Fiction and Film: Thinking With and Without Consciousness 225
- “I, Robot”: Artificial Intelligence and Fears of the Posthuman 237
- AI on Stage: A Cross-Cultural Check-Up and the Case of Canada and John Mighton 261
- Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Soul Machines: (Re‐)Configuring Empathy between Bodies, Knowledge, and Power 287
- List of contributors 309
- Index of Authors 315
- Index of Subjects 319
