Sociologists and Philosophers.

1
Sociologists and Philosophers.

• Social construction of knowledge and technology.
• Technological construction of knowledge and
  society.
• Ideas and insights for new orientation.
• Teach children to read ciphers of our time.

2
What is Thinking?

• Do you wish to understand this, my little
  lap-dog?
• Yes.
• But you do not have the understanding to grasp
  it.
• Understanding?
• Yes.
• What is that?
• You should have asked that beforehand, long ago.
• When, beforehand?
• Before you lost it.
• Did I once have understanding?
• Yes.
• What did I do with it?
• Nothing.

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When Mankind ForgotHow to Think
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Philosophical Innovations of
this Book

• Concept of global-machine
• Interpretation of industrial sectors as
  quasiself-reproductive machines.
• Darwinian technoevolution from evolution of
  quasiself-reproductive machines.
• Hypercyclic networking biosphere-technosphere.

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Philosophical innovations, contd

• Hypercyclic co-evolution of biosphere-technosphere
  .
• Human-machine co-evolution in the global-machine.
  
• Mentalization of global-machine by human-machine
  co-evolution.
• Machina sapiens arising from mentalizing.

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Critique Agreed

• Technology has become a unified machine.
• Humans are machine-co-dependent.
• Wars, poverty, toxic-wastes,... are co-dependency
  results.
• The machine is spirit-gifted.
• Mentally lazy humans may become the machine's
  lapdogs.

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However.

• Since agriculture, humans have been co-dependent
  on land ownership, flood management, writing,
  money, interest, printing press, algebra, Arabic
  numerals, calculus, assembly lines, internal
  combustion engines, electrical power grids, life
  insurance, retirement planning, hypertension
  medications, telephones, agribusiness, internet.
• We can never turn back.
• Most humans would not want to.

8
Wars, poverty, toxic-wastes.

• May likewise be attributed to
• Agriculture, land ownership, flood management,
  writing, money, interest, printing press,
  algebra, Arabic numerals, calculus, assembly
  lines, internal combustion engines, electrical
  power grids, life insurance, retirement planning,
  hypertension medications, telephones,
  agribusiness, internet.

9
Mentally active humans.

• May live longer.
• May be more productive.
• May become better scholars.
• May spend more effort in philosophical
  reflections.

10
Machines arehuman-co-dependent.

• Speech recognition muffled speech.
• Image recognition cats, persons, pathology.
• Prevarication.
• Turing test.
• Ethics, morality.

11
We all die someday. Immortality
through.

• God's grace, life well-lived, eternal life in
  hereafter.
• Progeny and family.
• Publication, art, architecture,....
• Students.

12
Human population in the
techno-hypercycle

• Increased numbers.
• Increased longevity.
• Increased health.
• Increased quality-of-life, by some measure.
• These are measurable goals, achievements.

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Trojan Horse
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Prof. Sadegh-zadehs global-machine is a Trojan
horse.

• If it's full of Greek soldiers, bad....
• If it's full of Halloween candy, that's good.
• Humankind will make the decision.