To understand this new wave of technology with ChatGPT at the forefront, we can start with John Searle’s famous Chinese Room thought experiment from 1980, which conceals the most annoying stereotype of computational machines in the guise of…[^3]: Hans Blumenberg, “Progress Exposed as Fate,” chap. 3 of part 1, in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, trans. Robert M. Wallace (MIT Press, 1985).
[^4]: John. R. Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, n…
Avram Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky appears only as a passing reference in the course materials, cited briefly in a footnote without elaboration on his specific contribution to the seminar's concerns. The excerpts provided don't offer enough context to determine whether he's being invoked for his linguistics work, his computational theory, or his broader critiques of technology and society—all of which could be relevant to a course examining AI and cybernetics. His inclusion suggests the readings engage with foundational debates about language, computation, and the possibility of machine understanding, but his precise role in these arguments remains unclear from the given excerpts.
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