Language in the Godless Age of AI

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dc.contributor.authorSchuster, Radek
dc.contributor.authorEkbia, Hamid
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-02T08:17:46Z
dc.date.available2025-07-02T08:17:46Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstract-translatedWe relate the Mind-Technology Problem to contemporary AI in the spirit of Descartes’ meditations, where the original Mind-Body Problem was born. We seek the essence of the M-T Problem in the phenomenon of language, which can be apprehended along three dimensions – ordinary, mathematical, and sacred. We argue that although 17th century philosophers seemed to separate science from theology and focused attention on the mathematical dimension of language, the sacred dimension remained active behind the scenes. In a rather ironic way, the rise of LLMs has brought this dimension out of the shadows into daily discourse. The process of scientific proselytization of the mathematical dimension of language has given rise to the conception of language as technology. At the same time, the suppressed sacred dimension instigates the perception of technology as language through which a transcendent perfect intelligence may speak. This reciprocal confusion of language and technology leads to contemporary quasi-religious debates surrounding AI and transhumanism. Taking the performative potential of the sacred dimension of language into account, we argue for the treatment of the M-T Problem as a ‘Language-Language’ Problem, where the particular meanings of the terms ‘mind’ and ‘technology’ are determined through a variety of meta-language games.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSociálně-kulturní determinanty dopadu cirkulace reprezentací na lidskou mysl a možnosti remediacecs
dc.format13 s.cs
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2025.2484743
dc.identifier.issn0269-1728
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/62072
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.rights© Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0en
dc.rights.accessopenAccessen
dc.subjectproblém technologie myslics
dc.subjectumělá inteligencecs
dc.subjectkarteziánstvícs
dc.subjecttranshumanismuscs
dc.subject.translatedmind-technology problemen
dc.subject.translatedartificial intelligenceen
dc.subject.translatedcartesianismen
dc.subject.translatedtranshumanismen
dc.titleLanguage in the Godless Age of AIen
dc.typearticleen
dc.typečlánekcs
dc.type.statusPeer revieweden
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