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We Are Not Software: David Bentley Hart with Acid Horizon

Acid Horizon

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Is There a Conscious Agency in the Computer?

We become accustomed to the notion of a technology replacing certain functions, such as putting automobiles together without accidentally knocking off one of our own thumbs. A difference comes into view when we begin relating to the technology not just as media for connecting with other agencies but allowing ourselves to believe that the technology itself has become an agency. At some point it ceases to be a prosthesis of our rational agency or of our desires or our wills and instead becomes the integrated system of which we become parts. We've misunderstood, we first projected ourselves on the computers in a way that was naive, but perhaps unavoidable.

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