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…Vinge, V. (1993) The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Lewis Research Center, Vision 21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace: pp. 11–22.
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Karel Čapek
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Karel Čapek is a Czech writer best known for coining the term "robot" in his 1920 play *R.U.R.* (*Rossum's Universal Robots*), making him foundational to how we conceptualize artificial beings and labor automation in both science fiction and critical theory. The course readings invoke Čapek's work implicitly through discussions of machinic consciousness and the question of what counts as "real" or alive—his robots dramatize exactly the problem of entities that perform functions without interiority or traditional consciousness. His conceptual legacy appears woven through the seminar's engagement with cybernetics and AI as philosophical problems rather than merely technical ones, especially in how they force us to reconsider what constitutes authentic existence or counting in a world of artificial agents.
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