The Age of Sapiocracy

Dr. Leon Tsvasman

doi:10.5771/9783987400124

Summary

Discover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, the author presents a radical innovation ethic of combining human creativity and artificial intelligence, whose complex interplay he explores herein. Focusing on the solution of global complexity problems, this comprehensive examination of epistemological, anthropological, and cybernetic aspects offers a unique perspective on the future of the data-driven age. The conversational format makes this book an insightful read for students, intellectuals, and literature enthusiasts alike.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98740-011-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-98740-012-4
Publisher: Ergon, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 273
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 10
1. 1. Infosomatic Turn: The Clout of Complexity No access
  2. Decoding Power: The Sophic Sway No access
  3. Ethics for the Better Human in Us No access
2. 1. In the Eye of The Storm There Is No Foresight… No access
  2. But There Is Meaning in The Tree of Life No access
3. 1. 1. Sapiocracy: A Pre-emptive Dialogue No access
  2. The Power of Meaning No access
  3. Decoding Actuality No access
  4. 1. Navigating the Lyrical Currents: An Intellectual Map of “The Age of Sapiocracy” No access
1. 1. Between Time and Emergence No access
  2. On Value of Potentiality No access
  3. Issues of Intelligence No access
  4. The Crucial Insight No access
  5. Intersubjectivity Modes No access
  6. Actuality of Survival No access
  7. Mediality of Chimeras No access
  8. The Power of Longing No access
2. 1. Overcoming Survival No access
  2. Civilization Design No access
  3. Alchemy of Progress No access
  4. Sapiocracy: The Code No access
  5. The Knowledge of Orientation No access
  6. 1. The Sophos Revolution No access
  7. Economy of Vertical Innovation No access
  8. The Age of Sapiocracy No access
  9. The Infosomatic Era No access
1. Dialectics of Human and AI: Intersubjectivity Reloaded No access
2. 1. From Tool to Human Partner: AI as the Global Technical Consciousness of the World No access
  2. Sapiocracy as a Solution Model for Complex Problems No access
  3. Rethinking Traditional Understandings No access
  4. Going Beyond the Iron Cage with Unlocked Human Potential No access
  5. Power Distortions Avoidance No access
  6. Preserving Equilibrium of Interests No access
  7. Real Complexity vs. Actuality No access
  8. Digital Transformation and Sustainable Civilization Design No access
  9. The Potentiality of a Viable World is Ethical No access
  10. The Ontological Concept of Potentiality: From Aristotle to Cybernetic Ethics No access
  11. The Ethical and Epistemological Pathway to Global Fairness No access
  12. Why We Need an Inspired Co-Orientation in a Complex World No access
  13. Ethics as a Resource: The Common Basis of Ethical and Economic Values No access
3. Key Insights for Humanityʼs Future No access
4. 1. A Glimpse Beyond the Horizon No access
1. 1. 1. Why do we need artificial intelligence (AI), and are there any alternatives? No access
    2. Can you expound on the “biosociotechnological” concept in relation to autopoiesis and the infosomatic turn? No access
    3. Does the human mind require tangible or communicable concepts for proper functioning? No access
    4. Why can communication be automated at all? No access
    5. Is there a common foundation of ethical and economic values? No access
    6. How can the progressive integration of artificial intelligence transform our human society and power structures? No access
    7. What does the concept of future imply? No access
    8. What is an ethically coherent civilization? No access
    9. What is human nature? No access
    10. Does humanity have a universal mission, or is the perspective of humanism unjustified? No access
    11. Why delegate decision-making to AI? No access
    12. Does ʻthe worldʼ truly exist in the sense we commonly perceive? No access
    13. How does the use of AI in scientific-philosophical work impact the value and integrity of the work, and should this be disclosed? No access
    14. How does AI influence an authorʼs distinct voice in interdisciplinary research and is disclosure of its use necessary? No access
    15. What is the author’s philosophy of technology and perspective on Cybernetics? No access
  2. Expanded Aphorisms No access
2. 1. (–) Actuality No access
  2. (–) Potentiality No access
  3. Reflection Exercise: Unveiling Potentiality-Actuality-Dialectics No access
  4. (o) Radical Ethics No access
  5. (–) Mediality No access
  6. (o) Sophos No access
  7. (•) Culturality No access
  8. (–) Intersubjectivity No access
  9. (n) Human-Artificial Co-Intelligence and Potential Intersubjectivity (Sapiopoiesis) No access
  10. (–) Enabling Infrastructure No access
  11. (o) Human Difference No access
  12. (n) Infosomatic Shift No access
  13. (n) AI-Thinking No access
  14. (–) Strategic Intelligence No access
  15. (•) Structural Coupling No access
  16. (•) Conceptualizing the World No access
  17. (•) The Nexus of Science No access
  18. (o) Civilizational Design No access
  19. (–) Logos No access
  20. (n) Sapiocracy No access
  21. (•) Complexity No access
  22. (o) Redundant Environment No access
  23. (•) Awareness No access
  24. (•) Future No access
  25. (–) Swarm Intelligence No access
  26. (•) Cybernetic Thinking No access
  27. (•) Power No access
3. Sapiopoietic Synthesis: An Ongoing Codex No access
Literature No access Pages 271 - 273

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