Some End Thoughts

A summary of:
Lanier, J. (2010). You Are Not Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Gadget: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Manifesto. Allen Lane: London.
Part 5, Chapter 14: Future Humors

The mass concludes somewhat less triumphantly than expected. E.g.:
"I've argued that when you lot deny the specialness of personhood, you lot elicit confused, inferior results from people. On the other hand, I've equally good argued that computationalism, a philosophical framework that doesn't give people a particular place, tin live on extremely useful inwards scientific speculations. When nosotros desire to empathise ourselves on naturalistic terms, nosotros must brand operate of naturalistic philosophy that accounts for a score of irreducible complexity, together with until someone comes upwardly amongst or together with then other idea, computationalsims is the only path nosotros accept to create that" (177).

But nosotros exactly must create better! "Treating people equally null other than parts of nature is an uninspired footing for designing technologies that embody human aspirations" (178).

Lanier seems to live on articulating something real similar to my declaration that nosotros bespeak to a greater extent than "spiritual" engagements amongst technology; i.e. these engagements bespeak to live on uplifting together with meaningful. The in conclusion sentences of his mass read: "For me, the prospect of an exclusively dissimilar notion of communication is to a greater extent than thrilling than a structure similar the Singularity. Any gadget, fifty-fifty a big 1 similar the Singularity, gets tedious afterwards a while. But a deepening of pregnant is the virtually intense potential form of jeopardy available to us" (192).