This chapter will define the term overcomputationalism and explain how it relates to the concepts of pancognitivism, paninformationalism, and pancomputationalism and how they can affect the preservation of our free will (and to avoid the death of homo faber), as expressed by the Latin motto quisque faber suae fortunae, which was rediscovered by humanists in the 14th century and played a major role in the Italian Renaissance. I would like to bring the reader’s attention to a query that, in my opinion, captures many of the issues surrounding the aforementioned topic: would future eco-cognitive settings be computationally or humanly tailored? We will see how computational invasive “subcultures”, such as robots, bots etc., constitute challenges to human creativity, ownership of our own destinies, and epistemic rigor. To maximize the power of man to influence his own destiny, everyday, philosophical, and scientific knowledge about natural and artificial phenomena have to be protected. I will then go on to discuss two important roles performed by human knowledge and the necessity for their ongoing improvement. Human beings have increased their ability to track the outside world, and as a result, thanks to ethical knowledge, humans have learned to track the behavior of other humans with the intention of promoting collaboration and, as a result, free and conscious initiatives and proposals.

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Are We Close to the Death of “Homo Faber”? Information Technology, Robots, AI, and the Urgent Need of a New Renaissance

  • Lorenzo Magnani

摘要

This chapter will define the term overcomputationalism and explain how it relates to the concepts of pancognitivism, paninformationalism, and pancomputationalism and how they can affect the preservation of our free will (and to avoid the death of homo faber), as expressed by the Latin motto quisque faber suae fortunae, which was rediscovered by humanists in the 14th century and played a major role in the Italian Renaissance. I would like to bring the reader’s attention to a query that, in my opinion, captures many of the issues surrounding the aforementioned topic: would future eco-cognitive settings be computationally or humanly tailored? We will see how computational invasive “subcultures”, such as robots, bots etc., constitute challenges to human creativity, ownership of our own destinies, and epistemic rigor. To maximize the power of man to influence his own destiny, everyday, philosophical, and scientific knowledge about natural and artificial phenomena have to be protected. I will then go on to discuss two important roles performed by human knowledge and the necessity for their ongoing improvement. Human beings have increased their ability to track the outside world, and as a result, thanks to ethical knowledge, humans have learned to track the behavior of other humans with the intention of promoting collaboration and, as a result, free and conscious initiatives and proposals.