tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post9044164453300793545..comments2024-03-18T16:29:17.369-07:00Comments on Inverted Alchemy: An Integral Economy: The Imitation Game and the Human EnigmaDavid Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-53556073989162431192015-01-01T12:36:21.266-08:002015-01-01T12:36:21.266-08:00Appreciating some relatively perennial themes runn...Appreciating some relatively perennial themes running through your approach, such as (re)humanization, I'm struck this New Year's Eve with chords of agreement between this final blog offering of the year, and something I'd written when half the age I am now. (from an essay, "Integrity") “Previously, the entire spectrum segment basis in use were represented and explicit to the tool user. In digitalization the relations of the units are functionally abstracted from the continuum their relevance is dependent on. These shifts impact our motivational modeling to the degree that our behaviors have become automatic. A change in our consensus-awareness, however, always precedes any technological implementation or reflection of our mutual choices. User and used, technician and technique, may need to strike a more viable balance if these roles are not to be disproportionately reversed in ways that cancel the effectiveness of both. The activities and activations of human beings are not mechanistic nor ultimately mechanizable. Despite behaviorist proofs to the contrary we are not, nor is our environment, automized. There’s no autonomy beyond interdependence.”Kerry Duganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14846127021780093924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-91080400235434475632015-01-01T11:39:06.691-08:002015-01-01T11:39:06.691-08:00(As I'd commented elsewhere last night) Apprec...(As I'd commented elsewhere last night) Appreciating some relatively perennial themes running through David Martin's approach, such as (re)humanization, I'm struck this New Year's Eve with chords of agreement between David's final blog offering of the year, and something I'd written when half the age I am now. (from an essay, "Integrity") “Previously, the entire spectrum segment basis in use were represented and explicit to the tool user. In digitalization the relations of the units are functionally abstracted from the continuum their relevance is dependent on. These shifts impact our motivational modeling to the degree that our behaviors have become automatic. A change in our consensus-awareness, however, always precedes any technological implementation or reflection of our mutual choices. User and used, technician and technique, may need to strike a more viable balance if these roles are not to be disproportionately reversed in ways that cancel the effectiveness of both. The activities and activations of human beings are not mechanistic nor ultimately mechanizable. Despite behaviorist proofs to the contrary we are not, nor is our environment, automized. There’s no autonomy beyond interdependence.”Kerry Duganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14846127021780093924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-42813731638903563352014-12-31T13:08:48.384-08:002014-12-31T13:08:48.384-08:00Beautiful essay David -- i once gave a workshop in...Beautiful essay David -- i once gave a workshop in the library at Bletchley Park. I will put a composition together for you. andrew james campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14101819047993280470noreply@blogger.com