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Ryan Jordan is the wrong presenter for this technology, not because he does not understand technology — but because he does not understand the nature of reality or human relational cognition.
In his huffpost article, he ignores the ‘relational between’ of beings, purposes and machines, in which most of the important perspectives and opportunities for research and understanding actually lie. This is the area where it is clear that technologies to not merely ‘deliver results or not’, as we too often suppose, because our minds are relationally entangled with them and these minds are neither objects, statics, nor ‘possessions’.
Science wants us to believe that seemingly arbitrary word-strings are, for example, mere schizophrenia, which, to a machine, would be true. Not so, however, to the astonishingly nonmechanical minds of human beings, which do not so much ‘receive’ information as they do ‘meaningfully constellate otherwise unrelated sensings and gestalts’. This is nothing like what machines do. In one context, a machine has a purpose that it cannot acquire in one missing the human relationally purposive and creatively re-resolving aspects which are the signature of human awareness and experience.
The entire context of human cognition and experience is fundamentally amechanical, and has to do with shared emergence of phenomenon rather than ‘results delivered by a technological device’, in fact, the entire domain of human experience and cognition is never ‘something that happens in a purely mechanical way’ and is not merely a matter of cause and effect as we ordinarily play these tropes for analytical purposes. The actual, accessible nature of reality is truly bizarre: more so than our mechanical denials or our ecstatic proclamations. Far more.
I would like to have a word with Ryan Jordan. He is extremely confused about what he thinks he is talking about. But at least we can be a little bit clearer: human experience isn’t delivered by machines, it is midwived into living birth by living minds in intimate co-emergence. Machines are extra, and may amplify or enstrange these result. They can also be used to explicitly deny them, simply by covertly subtracting the crucial roots of relational contexts they intentionally failed to recognize in the first place.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ryan-jordan/retro-death-telegraphy_b_3412940.html
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