The “intelligence” found in machines today is a reflective form of operation, as both Gotthard Günther and Gilbert Simondon rightly observed. For Günther, cybernetics is the realization of Hegel’s logic, while for Simondon, it was only in th…[^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…
Gotthard Günther
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Gotthard Günther was a German philosopher and logician who theorized cybernetics as the practical realization of Hegelian dialectical logic, positioning automated reflection and machine intelligence as continuations of philosophical thought rather than departures from it. The course readings invoke Günther to ground the claim that contemporary machine intelligence operates through reflexive rather than merely instrumental processes, establishing a genealogy that connects cybernetic systems to centuries of European philosophy about consciousness and negation. His work appears as a key conceptual bridge between mid-century cybernetics and the theoretical frameworks needed to understand AI not as separate from human thought but as its formal extension.
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