The man and the machine. It's a subject that has tapped me for many years, and made me schizophrenic: a technophile shot (smartphone grafted by hand, head leaning over the screen 24/7), a technophobic shot (abandonment of networks, return to the walkie-talkie).
These upheavals can easily be explained because my reflections were carried out in the light of morality: is the machine good or evil?
Having just returned from a technophobic period, I have since cleaned up my relationship with the machine. But many questions remain.
Right now, I'm wondering about mimicry. Plato, René Girard posed concepts on this phenomenon characteristic of Mother Nature. Scientists, with mirror neurons, even affix a rational buffer.
I have two main questions to ask:
Are we human beings imitating technology?
Can technology ever imitate us?
On the first question, I make some naive comments: when we want to have "everything right now", do we not want to imitate technology? When we want to see rapid economic growth, don't we want to emulate video games?
For the second question, I am thinking of the myth of the conquest of the world by robots: but isn't this "coup d' état" a human concept? Does a machine have a survival instinct? An instinct for domination?
These two questions take me to an even broader question: is the machine a living being? Is the machine natural? These questions are absolutely central today, at a time when trans-humanists want to mix us with the machine.
They invite us to look in the mirror, us human beings. Who are we? What makes us different from the machine? What's a man after all?
If man finds his place (where he finds it), the machine may find his own, of course.
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