this hypothetical moment of an intelligence explosion, a point-of-no-return, at which AI will decisively surpass human intelligence, rendering the human species as we know it obsolete, if not actually extinct.[^3] Its foremost advocate, Kur…that we arrive at the point of raising the question how to make the One into something that holds up, that is, that is counted without being. Mathematization alone reaches a real [...] a real that has nothing to do with what traditional kno…
James Lovelock
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James Lovelock is best known for the Gaia hypothesis, which posits Earth as a self-regulating, living system—a framing that challenges the separation between biology and geology and suggests emergent planetary intelligence. In these readings, Lovelock appears to anchor discussions of systems thinking and planetary-scale complexity that operate implicitly against the individualist, human-centric logic of AI singularity narratives; his work enables a different temporal and scalar register for thinking about intelligence, emergence, and what "life" or "system" might mean beyond the computational. The excerpts suggest his thinking is invoked to complicate transhumanist assumptions about intelligence and obsolescence by foregrounding non-human, self-organizing systems as models of intelligence.
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