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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
philosopher · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Schelling appears here as a philosophical authority on the problem of nature's status in Western thought—specifically his insistence that nature precedes and grounds thinking rather than being merely an object of rational mastery. The readings invoke him to ground a critique of how contemporary philosophy and AI discourse subordinate biological and natural processes to instrumental logic, suggesting that extending technology into biological domains (as in the passage's framing of warm machines as natural extensions) requires recuperating Schelling's pre-Kantian move that restores nature's ontological priority. His presence anchors an argument that treating intelligence, life, and machines as continuous requires first rejecting the philosophical diminishment of nature itself.
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