form or the idea of the human—or sapience as a set of positive/enabling constraints for thinking and action—as a token for the labour of intelligibility.
As suggested by Peter Wolfendale’s phrase ‘the reformatting of homo sapiens’,[^53] sa…As vague as the notion of process may be, it certainly is in their nature not only to evolve (amongst the effects produced by a process appear its own transformations), but also to produce effects on other processes, mutual effects. In shor…
Peter Wolfendale
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Peter Wolfendale is a contemporary philosopher who theorizes the restructuring of human cognition and agency under computational systems. His concept of "the reformatting of homo sapiens" appears in the course readings as a critical framing for how AI and machine learning don't simply augment human thought but fundamentally reconstitute what sapience and intelligibility mean—treating human cognitive capacity as something malleable and subject to systemic transformation. This phrase becomes a key conceptual tool for examining the entanglement between human and machine systems, suggesting that contemporary AI doesn't operate on a pre-existing human nature but rather participates in actively reshaping the conditions of human thinking itself.
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