عصیان خلاقانه در برابر ماشین محاسباتی

I think that we can engage in creative rage against the computing machine, by systematically critically reflecting on the nature, scope, and limits of our own innate mental capacities and powers specifically in their relation to so-called “artificial intelligence” (AI), other digital computing systems, and digital technology more generally. Correspondingly, what I call the critical philosophy of digital technology investigates the nature, scope, and limits—whether metaphysical, logico-semantic, cognitive or epistemic, moral, or sociopolitical—of AI, other digital computing systems, and digital technology more generally, and leads to a philosophical doctrine I call dignitarian neo-Luddism with respect to digital technology. An extremely important but unexpected (at least by me) positive result of this critical philosophy of digital technology, is that it can fruitfully and even radically clarify and sharpen our conception of authentic human creativity (AHC). Indeed, it enables us to formulate a precise account, analysis, or explanation of AHC in terms of its individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions. It has often been said that AHC is a mystery or mystical. But if I’m right, then AHC can be philosophically de-mystified without reducing it to something that’s merely mechanical, trivial, or trite.