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Being human in the age of AI

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Impossibility of Reason

"I'm much more distrustful of my mind and my ability to reason than I was when I was still immersed in Christianity," he says. "We have all these sort of tracking devices where we treat our bodies like these engines that can be optimized" He adds: "These metaphors are tools for describing the world, but they're also imposing themselves on us"

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