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That one could become a “cyborg” is not “low” in any fluffy humanist sense of violating the sacredness of the unity of Mankind, but rather what is “low” is that one must lower oneself to servitude in order to maintain one’s parts.
On the distributed cognition account, we can already see a more dynamic picture emerging about the concerns of generative AI producing false outputs if we take seriously the idea that our cognitive processes are deeply entangled with the cognitive and affective tools that we use.
A total economy is an unrestrained taking of profits from the disintegration of nations, communities, households, landscapes, and ecosystems. It licenses symbolic or artificial wealth to ‘grow’ by means of the destruction of the real wealth of all the world.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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