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MUTUAL INCORPORATION, INTERCORPOREALITY, AND THE PROBLEM OF MEDIATING SYSTEMS
Get PDFIn this paper, I explore the ways that phenomenological concepts like intercorporeality and mutual incorporation offer new tools in trying to make sense of human experiences via mediating systems. In particular, I think about how the COVID-19 pandemic hastened a large population into mediated interactions, and what is lost, perhaps contingently or perhaps intrinsically, when human experiences are mediated in this way. I look to research in presence, skillful interaction, and enactive social cognition to argue that there remains something ineffable or at least extremely hard to pin down about intercorporeality, and embodied togetherness has not yet been replicated in the mediating systems we currently embrace
Hacking the Extended Mind: The Security Implications of the New Metaphysics
Get PDFComputer security expert Paul Syverson has argued that there is a computer security equivalent of gaslighting: where a clever adversary could convince some system that some component that is not really a part of the system is in fact a part of the system. If non-biological items from our environments (or even pieces of our environments themselves) can be part of our minds (the standard Extended Mind hypothesis, EM), they are therefore part of our selves, and therefore subject to Syverson’s worry about boundary in a way that has not been explored before. If some version of EM holds, then what were once security concerns surrounding various systems or devices become those same concerns but writ large for our cognitive processes, the core of mind and thought. Philosophers and critics have long been worried that if EM is true, selfhood bleeds out of the nicely-contained package of skin and skull. Criticism has been offered that argues if we allow some of the environment to count as genuinely part of our minds, it seems to threaten the existence of our phenomenal feeling of ownership over our own bodies, and the worry persists that selfhood itself becomes threatened with dissolution. Yet if we agree with Clark and understanding selfhood as fundamentally dispersed and therefore only imperiled by the more traditional view of some core, persistent notion of self, the security worry remains. No matter how we adjust our foundational metaphysics to account for the extended mind hypothesis, we are stuck with the security concerns, and we must start to catalog and account for the challenges before we see actual adversarial attacks on the actual devices constituting the minds of real people. Thinking about the very nature of the mind turns out to provide insight into how we think about security, and vice versa
Historias de la Inteligencia Artificial: pasado y presente.
Get PDFThis text presents a brief overview of some of the milestones in the history of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to other disciplines in their historical context. Written jointly by two people with very different backgrounds, its starting point is to highlight the discontinuous and fortuitous nature of what we now call ‘artificial intelligence’, embedded in a series of political, economic, material and theoretical intermittences. Our aim is also to contextualise the transformation that artificial intelligence has undergone in its journey from its conception as a problem-solving system to the complex manipulation of the media machine. A context marked and elaborated by an extensive bibliography that has gradually defined the content of AI, its implications and what can be expected of it.Este texto presenta un breve recorrido por algunos de los hitos en la conformación de la historia de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en su relación con otras disciplinas en su contexto histórico. Realizado a cuatro manos por dos personas de bagaje muy diferentes, su punto de partida es subrayar la naturaleza discontinua y fortuita de ese objeto que hoy nombramos como “inteligencia artificial”, incrustado en una serie de intermitencias políticas, económicas, materiales y teóricas. Nuestro objetivo, además, es poner en contexto la transformación que sufre la inteligencia artificial en el trayecto desde su concepción como sistema de resolución de problemas a la compleja manipulación de la máquina de medios. Un contexto marcado y elaborado por una amplia bibliografía que ha ido, paulatinamente, definiendo el contenido de la IA, sus implicaciones y lo que cabría esperar de ella
