PHIL 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tacit Knowledge, Explicit Knowledge
26 Sep 2016
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The fact that our devices are close to us doesn"t necessarily mean we are well-tuned to what is going on. Dark age: forgetting of the knowledge of the things we collected (used to know) without realizing. The more pilots rely on autopilots, the less they are pilots they are watchers of computers. Must develop a feel for how to drive a car how long it is, wide etc. Carr is beginning to tell us when we give our lives over to algorithms we gain advantages but we remove ourselves from the situation. Autopilot & algorithms 1, manual vs. automatic 5, people vs. software 8, two types of knowledge 9, human and artificial intelligence 12, dependency 12. We think of ourselves at the deepest level as agents" beings capable of acting, changing ourselves and the world. To the extent that the algorithms take over, our agency diminishes
