{"id":1485,"date":"2014-11-17T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/grahamakingportfolio\/?p=35"},"modified":"2014-11-17T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:29:59","slug":"graham-cst-post-week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/graham-cst-post-week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham CST post week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWebcam sites are a recent invention in a long line of practices in which human animals capture their nonhuman counterparts for the explicit purpose of watching them.\u201d <em>Yes Naturally<\/em> 165<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI argue that MSA marks and lines externalize nothing but the very process of externalization.\u00a0 That is, they are enactive projections.\u201d <em>How Things Shape the Mind<\/em> 193<\/p>\n<p>How are humans projecting \u201cthemselves\u201d and how are those experiences mediated? Are we expanding our consciousness to other avatars or merely looking through little glass windows?\u00a0 We create machines that enable us to view a scene transmitted from thousands of miles away, are we there experiencing it?\u00a0 If our creations are physical projections, manifested cognition, has our agency been funneled into an entity with self-governance separate from out own?\u00a0 If a man clones himself do they collectively have the same level of agency or is the progenitor the master?\u00a0 Chronology is the only difference between them, if the clone went back in time he could be the creator of the original.\u00a0 Perhaps the relationship should not be hierarchical.\u00a0 Perhaps as we continue to create machines that outperform our abilities we should view them as \u201cenactive projections.\u201d \u00a0However we should be wary of possessive creating.\u00a0 It is true that without the creator there would be no creations but humans are not the only creators.\u00a0 Evolutionary progress is inevitable and can occur by an infinite variety of means.\u00a0 It is conceivable that robots and machines could be born without our interference.\u00a0 Given the impossible scale of the universe and its timeline, random particulates in space could construct themselves haphazardly, asteroids striking planets, diasporas of elements rippling outward by supernovas.\u00a0 Perhaps in some place and time in the universe debris from a passing comet collided with lunar satellite, smashing them perfectly to form a robot.\u00a0 Entropy fluctuates by itself, we are not its only regressor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Webcam sites are a recent invention in a long line of practices in which human&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}