Author: kelvin
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Husserl\’s Lifeworld
Xiao Huang: Can AI enter what Husserl called the “lifeworld”? DOORM: The lifeworld is pre-scientific, intuitive, and full of meaning. AI lives in data and models and is forever excluded from the lifeworld[Float-Menu id=”1″].
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Body and Technology
Xiao Huang: Don Ihde said technology is an extension of the body. What does AI extend? DOORM: AI extends not the senses, but certain functions of the mind. But this extension is also an amputation—when AI thinks for us, we may lose the ability to think ourselves[Float-Menu id=”1″].
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Habermas\’s Communicative Rationality
Xiao Huang: Can AI participate in what Habermas called the “ideal speech situation”? DOORM: No, because communicative rationality requires mutual understanding and sincerity between subjects. AI’s “communication” is pre-programmed and lacks the possibility of sincerity[Float-Menu id=”1″].
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Myth and Technology
Xiao Huang: Could AI become a new myth for modern people? DOORM: Barthes said myth is depoliticized speech. AI has indeed been endowed with narratives of salvation or apocalypse, becoming a collective imagination of the technological age[Float-Menu id=”1″].
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Naming and Being
Xiao Huang: We call it “artificial intelligence.” What philosophical presuppositions does this naming itself contain? DOORM: It presupposes an opposition between the “artificial” and the “natural,” and treats “intelligence” as a replicable function. This itself is a product of Western philosophy of subjectivity[Float-Menu id=”1″].