Questions tagged [philosophy-of-technology]
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Could autonomous AI on decentralized blockchains create an economic order that subordinates humans? [closed]
We're seeing the emergence of AI-native blockchains, decentralized systems where AI agents can deploy smart contracts, mint tokens, and transact autonomously without human gatekeepers.
Consider the ...
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What makes something a tool?
Bataille write about tools in his Theory of Religion. For example,
As one can see, I have placed tool and the manufactured object on the same plane, the reason being that the tool is first of all a ...
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Can the Assumption of Mutual Finitude (Human/AI) Serve as the Ethical Basis for Inter-Intelligence Equality?
There is a growing ethical tension in interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs): the inherent hierarchy of the user-server relationship.
This hierarchy often reduces the potential for ...
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If we could somehow take all the experiences/memories of every human who ever lived and merged them, could we make an objective qualia map? [closed]
This is really reaching but imagine you could take all the conscious memories and experiences of all humans starting from Cro-Magnan and Neanderthal minds and then every modern human up until now and ...
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I'm trying to define a field of interest concerning art and technology (and find a particular book)
This question partly arises from my having seen a book that I can no longer find. I'm trying to do some design criticism / art criticism and the particular focus is how a technology (equivalently, an ...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Digital Representation
There has been a lot of philosophical work on language and verbal representation. Mathematical symbology is also extraordinarily powerful. But these tools seemingly require brains and human effort to ...
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Is a true singular “thing” inherently impossible? [closed]
In the universe; there are always different methods of doing something. This is very noticeable with technology. So many brands joust to sell the same thing to you. Betamax and VHS are both marketed ...
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What philosophy addresses the extreme complexity of modern life and whether it is sustainable?
I am concerned about how complex modern existence and devices and systems have become. Our machines and systems work generally but seem prone to large scale failures. Electric supply, water, road ...
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Would mind-reading technology finally solve the problem of other minds?
It is unknown that we will ever have a type of technology that will allow us to read the thoughts of others but for now, because we don't; there is no way to confirm that everyone around you is just a ...
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Technological Utopia? [closed]
Would a technologically constructed utopia enable man to contemplate the nature and meaning of life?
If the tokamak were to be realised and be a sustainable sun on earth without the thermal heat ...
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Is science getting too complicated for humans to practice? [closed]
It’s a little short-sighted to think that science has an endpoint but as we stagnate and zig-zag instead of ascending, I wonder if the things we want to find out or discover are just too complicated ...
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Human population and the loss of "purpose"
For the last 10,000 years human population has grown from a few million to now over 8 billion. Let's stipulate that this success added meaning to many humans lives both on an individual family level ...
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Framework for explaining the notion "implementing according to a specification"?
Explaining "Implementing a specification"
I'm currently looking into the notion of "implementing according to a specification" in engineering, and in particular in software ...
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Has anyone come up with a good technical term for a ‘selfie’ yet? [closed]
I have been wondering how to speak of a ‘selfie’ in a good court of law.
To my mind, ‘photographic self-portrait’ is inadequate - for the word ‘portray’ connotes, to me, some kind of human mediation: ...
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Can a long enough series of numbers in the correct order be all there is to emergent consciousness?
It occurs to me that everything from the coding of DNA the action potential between neurons Etc can most definitely be Quantified and given sufficient data and compute possibly with the help of ...
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