Clearly science is a powerful mode of human knowing, the rigorous distillation of our empirical experience of the physical. But it is not the only mode of our knowing. We know psychologically about what it means to be alive, have a private life, and deal with an uncertain existence. We also have social knowledge of what it means to be in a community of others—with their own private lives and objectives, even as both the psychological and social are embedded in and penetrated by the physical (technological). Because computers do not live our lives they cannot ever “think” or “imagine” as humans
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