I’m thinking the same way you are Carlos and it’s so lovely for me to read your post here today. The more I work with AI the more I realize how important it is to have the ability to question my thinking not just sometimes but all the time. I’m using AI to help me with that and I think I am actually growing in a way that I can’t just with the people I know because mostly they simply argue with me to adopt their point of view or agree with me. That’s a waste of time. I love your paragraph about epistemic humility. That’s somwthing AI is going to be really good for — helping humans confront our cognitive distortions.
Some good thoughts here but also some room to draw more richly on those perspectives you mention. I'll talk to posthumanism since that's what I know most about but I believe this also to be relevant to many indigenous perspectives: we don't keep cognitive tasks for ourselves. Rather, we distribute / assemble / configure thinking differently, merging differently with things around us in collective forms of thinking even when it looks like we are doing something on our own. It's all collective and has always been so. We have always thought with the land, with animals, other humans, material elements, technologies that are material, cognitive and social. I think that recognising how AI is part of this already complex and evolving way of being and thinking will be important to making sense of it.
I’m thinking the same way you are Carlos and it’s so lovely for me to read your post here today. The more I work with AI the more I realize how important it is to have the ability to question my thinking not just sometimes but all the time. I’m using AI to help me with that and I think I am actually growing in a way that I can’t just with the people I know because mostly they simply argue with me to adopt their point of view or agree with me. That’s a waste of time. I love your paragraph about epistemic humility. That’s somwthing AI is going to be really good for — helping humans confront our cognitive distortions.
Some good thoughts here but also some room to draw more richly on those perspectives you mention. I'll talk to posthumanism since that's what I know most about but I believe this also to be relevant to many indigenous perspectives: we don't keep cognitive tasks for ourselves. Rather, we distribute / assemble / configure thinking differently, merging differently with things around us in collective forms of thinking even when it looks like we are doing something on our own. It's all collective and has always been so. We have always thought with the land, with animals, other humans, material elements, technologies that are material, cognitive and social. I think that recognising how AI is part of this already complex and evolving way of being and thinking will be important to making sense of it.
Thank you Tim - great insight.