This, in particular, is the intelligent machine's seductive proposition. The temptation is one of inner passivity and inertia. Today there is widespread acceptance of whatever the self-driven, wildly careening course of technological development brings us, as if it were inevitable. In such symptoms we see a reversal of the movement toward awareness and freedom. Instead of recognizing around the boundaries of every technological determination new avenues of escape toward a fuller humanity, we numbly reconceive our humanity in the computer's image.
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