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The Divine Workshop

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Greek mythology gives us an extraordinary laboratory of artificial beings.

Athena represents intelligent making.

Hephaestus represents the workshop in which artifacts begin to act.

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  • The Divine Workshop
    Greek mythology gives us an extraordinary laboratory of artificial beings.Athena represents intelligent making.Hephaestus represents the workshop in which artif
    ↝ echoes → Mythology :: Hephaistos ↝ echoes → Greece
    • is_parent Athena: Intelligence of Making ·
      Athena is associated with craft, weaving, strategy and intelligent production.She is not primarily the goddess of machines.She represents something more fundame
    • is_parent Hephaestus: When Artifacts Act
      With Hephaestus, myth moves from intelligent making toward artificial agency.His workshop contains self-moving devices and artificial attendants.The question ch
      ↝ echoes → Made by Hephaistos ↝ echoes → Mythology :: Hephaistos
      • is_parent Machine as Human 🔒 ·
        In the Iliad, Hephaestus is assisted by artificial golden maidens endowed with capacities associated with living persons.The ancient fantasy is already recogniz
      • is_parent Machine as Servant 🔒 ·
        One of the most persistent fantasies is delegation.The artificial being carries, assists, manufactures, obeys.labor → delegated labor → autonomous laborThe mach
      • is_parent Machine as Prosthesis 🔒 ·
        A machine need not imitate the whole human.It may instead extend a capacity.lever → forcevehicle → movementwriting → memorycomputer → calculationartificial agen
    • is_parent Yan Shi: The Artificial Human
      The Chinese Liezi tells of the artificer Yan Shi presenting King Mu with a human-like artificial performer.It walks. It sings. It performs.When its behavior bec
      ↝ echoes → China
      • is_parent Open the Black Box 🔒 ·
        apparently human → disassembly → mechanismThe story stages a remarkably durable question:What remains of the human when we open the box?
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