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Machines in Our Image

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Artificial beings are not merely tools.

They become surfaces onto which humans project desire, identity and self-understanding.

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Machines in Our Image

Artificial beings are not merely tools.They become surfaces onto which humans project desire, identity and self-understanding.

↝ echoes → The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue ↝ echoes → A prayer
- is_parent Machine as Lover ·
  
  Pygmalion creates an ideal human form and falls in love with his creation.Venus / Aphrodite grants the statue life.The question is not merely:Can we reproduce a
  
  ↝ echoes → A kiss
- is_parent Machine as Mirror ·
  
  Artificial beings force us to ask what supposedly distinguishes us.If it moves like us?If it speaks?If it remembers?If it desires?If it creates?If it learns?By
- is_parent Machine as Double ·
  
  The artificial human is also a duplicate.A second body.A copy that may become difficult to distinguish from an original.The double turns technology into an iden
  
  ↝ echoes → carv'd in iv'ry a maid so fair