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Inner Bodily Consciousness

AI & the Future of Technology2015.01.22
Inner Bodily Consciousness
Embodiment is an important concept brought to us by phenomenology, but in the hands of analytic philosophers or cognitive scientists it often becomes reified. The reason for this is, on the one hand, that the very terminology of “embodiment” has already turned the concept into a fixed term (I don’t like this term, especially its Chinese translation); on the other hand, some scholars have given “body” a reified understanding, focusing their attention on the slab of flesh there before them in reality, and thereby turning the problem of embodiment into a problem “about the body.” Thinking of the analyses of time by phenomenologists such as Husserl and Heidegger, we must…
philosophy technology phenomenology Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
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2015年1月22日
On Heidegger’s Thought on Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2011.06.29
On Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
The previous article was another piece written by hastily asking for reinforcements. On the one hand, that was indeed because I have not been diligent enough lately; on the other hand, I was also busy planning the proposal for my doctoral dissertation, eager to design the overall line of thought, and as a result I could not settle down to concentrate first on some specific issue. The earlier “experience report” was like this too, and so is this set of reading notes on Heidegger’s later thought. Although they are all written rather superficially and in a somewhat scattered way, they really do have to do with a certain strategy for…
technology media Heidegger environment
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2011年6月29日
Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media

AI & the Future of Technology2011.02.02
Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media
The new blog had been tinkered with for so long that it has finally come to a temporary rest, and I should also write something more serious to explain myself. But this so-called serious writing is not yet that paper I have kept putting off; I’ll deal with that paper properly after the New Year. For now, following the context of tidying up the blog, let me talk about some thoughts on the “network age.” The last class of Wu’s seminar last semester happened to touch on communication in the network age, and I happened to pick up this thread and speak from there. The issue of communication in the…
culture technology scholarship media
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2011年2月2日
Random Thoughts on Abacus and Numbers

AI & the Future of Technology2009.06.22
Random Thoughts on Abacus and Numbers
Speaking of which, it has been many years since I really had much contact with arithmetic. Even in high school, math competitions did not emphasize the actual operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, let alone during my entire university years. So much so that yesterday, when I suddenly had to handle a large number of digits in a number-guessing game, I abruptly discovered that the abacus in my mind had rusted over; moving each bead felt sluggish, and worse still, many of the beads had become badly loose, so that with one slip of the hand I would lose the exact count. After a few rounds my brain began…
technology mathematics touch
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2009年6月22日
Mirror and Glass: Tactility and Reality (Postscript to “Aristotle’s Tactile World”)

Philosophy & Thought2009.06.19
Mirror and Glass: Tactility and Reality (Postscript to “Aristotle’s Tactile World”)
The little essay I finished the day before yesterday, “Aristotle’s Tactile World,” was an assignment for Teacher Sun’s course in Selected Readings from Original Works in Natural Philosophy. This semester we’ve been reading the first two parts of The Mechanization of the World Picture. I should say that I chose the topic in close relation to the course theme. I also kept the length to four thousand characters, which for me is rather unusual. Although this paper itself only touches the matter lightly, I believe it points to a huge problem. Behind all kinds of philosophical questions about causality, reality, modernity, and so-called embodied phenomenology, there lies a profound connection…
philosophy Aristotle being consciousness
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2009年6月19日
Aristotle’s Tactile World

History of Science & Scholarship2009.06.17
Aristotle’s Tactile World
Before discussing propositions such as modern science’s “mechanization of the world picture”[1], one should note that the concept of the “world picture” is quite extraordinary. Before the world can possibly be mechanized as a picture, there is a prior step: the picturing of the world. The world does not become a picture for human beings from the very beginning; in fact, once the world has come, as a matter of course, to be a picture, whether that picture is mechanized or not, some vitally important change in human knowledge has already quietly taken place. As Heidegger put it: “The world picture does not change from a medieval world picture into…
philosophy of science Aristotle Heidegger paper
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2009年6月17日