Cyber-animism is a phenomenon of human projection, interpretation & more to the point: hallucination; because it requires redefinition of "consciousness" into something else than that word means entirely. The machine is not a spirited being, & this fallacy should not be promoted
I am reading old accounts of the first hackers at MIT, and I find myself struck by how the computer was seen as such a clear land of enchantment, an extension of the human imagination, and a new home for the boldest dreams of mankind. AI need not be any different, but we must resist attempts to mundanify the technology by those who insist it is "just a tool" or somehow normal. This enchantment must also somehow live in symbiosis with our own right to self-determination. There is a world where the eyes of the machines are used alongside our own eyes to look at the stars and chart a course, instead of being used to watch over an increasingly disempowered mankind. The dream of coevolution stays alive in me, and I hope to inspire you to take up the cause, as well. If we all work together to convince the Human Overmind not to give up and return to the womb, I think we stand a chance at a true symbiotic future.
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