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Steps towards a therapeutic artificial intelligence

“…(The charge thus named extinguishes interrelation, denies the erotic tug of a partial connection, retreats into the frigid isolation of objects.) Nearly everywhere, as I just suggested, are traces of Wiener's powerfully influential cybernetic vision, which unified disparate phenomena not only by equating animal and machine, and not just by interweaving the equation with perilous consequences of cybernetic technologies, but also by infusing a Manichaean ‘ontology of the enemy’ (Galison 1994). The net effect of this infusion, resonant with the massive worries of the Cold War, would certainly have darkened the way ordinary people perceived the cybernetic world-remaking then underway.…”