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Being human in the age of AI

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Ubiquity of Technological Metaphors in Our Speech and Thinking

The idea of invisibility through ubiquity suggests that our use of technological metaphors in everyday speech can reflect the way we think about our minds/nMany people use technological metaphors without realizing it, such as saying they need to 'process' something or 'retrieve' a memory/nOur minds are not like physical spaces, and this is a concept that has been discussed by Julian James in the 70s

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