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This book initiates fresh pedagogic thinking on the nature of intelligence and human potentiality in the midst of a rising panic over so-called artificial intelligence. At the rate of current advancement, entire social and cultural landscapes including education and work are going to change in unprecedented ways in the near future. In light of these developments, the author sets out to critically assess the role of education in creating the capacity to distinguish between machinic intelligence and organic intelligence, thus helping us move from passive acceptance to active becoming.
Sommario
1. Introduction: In-Quest of Intelligence.- 2. Methods of the Sentient.- 3. the ghost in the machine.- 4. Rhythms of the living.- 5. the mental and the elemental.- 6. intelligence and the threptiko.
Info autore
Kaustuv Roy is Professor and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. His recent books include Technohumanism, Global Crises, and Education, Reincarnating Experience in Education: A Pedagogy of the Twice-Born, and Teachers and Teaching: Time and the Creative Tension, all published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Riassunto
This book initiates fresh pedagogic thinking on the nature of intelligence and human potentiality in the midst of a rising panic over so-called artificial intelligence. At the rate of current advancement, entire social and cultural landscapes including education and work are going to change in unprecedented ways in the near future. In light of these developments, the author sets out to critically assess the role of education in creating the capacity to distinguish between machinic “intelligence” and organic intelligence, thus helping us move from passive acceptance to active becoming.
