Comments on: The Smartphone is Human | John Dyer http://www.theodigital.com/2011/11/1115.html missional theology. digital media ecology. biscuits and gravy. Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:29:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chris Ridgeway http://www.theodigital.com/2011/11/1115.html/comment-page-1#comment-3857 Chris Ridgeway Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:48:16 +0000 http://www.theodigital.com/?p=1115#comment-3857 Antoine - oh, I think I meant something different with "human." Maybe "human-like" is better. I'm not intending to say that smartphones are humans or speaking of something like artificial intelligence/sentience. I'm saying that our interaction and use of them is somewhat "natural" to the condition of being human. It's not robotic or or weird or out-of-character for us to use them. They modify and amplify functions we already to (think, emote, relate, etc). Antoine – oh, I think I meant something different with “human.” Maybe “human-like” is better. I’m not intending to say that smartphones are humans or speaking of something like artificial intelligence/sentience. I’m saying that our interaction and use of them is somewhat “natural” to the condition of being human. It’s not robotic or or weird or out-of-character for us to use them. They modify and amplify functions we already to (think, emote, relate, etc).

]]> By: Antoine RJ Wrighht http://www.theodigital.com/2011/11/1115.html/comment-page-1#comment-3846 Antoine RJ Wrighht Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:48:03 +0000 http://www.theodigital.com/?p=1115#comment-3846 Interesting. Can a smartphone be sentient without the network? Is the current mode of smartphones too passive/reactive to be sentient? I'm not going to call it human, because we have not yet seen a smartphone demonstrate reason. I think we'll get to another mode/means/medium of communication before that happens. Interesting. Can a smartphone be sentient without the network? Is the current mode of smartphones too passive/reactive to be sentient?

I’m not going to call it human, because we have not yet seen a smartphone demonstrate reason. I think we’ll get to another mode/means/medium of communication before that happens.

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