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        Date: 2023-08-09 12:02:29+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.157: limits to one's attention

hi Jerry,
i must confess that i miss something to fully understand the richness of
your argument:
first of all because i don't fully know the story of the Salem Witch Trials
and hence i only superficially get the deep meaning of the related
dichotomy Enlightenment of Grace/Secular enlightenment, which was
suggested from the beginning by the fact that the atomic experiment was
called "Trinity".

sort of a secular religion in whose name everything is, and cannot but
be, good?
best
Maurizio


Il 03/08/23 07:56, Mcgann, Jerome (jjm2f) <jjm2f@virginia.edu> ha scritto:
> As for “limits”, Willard, I would add to your recommendation that everyone
think
> about watching (again?) “Trinity and Beyond”.
>
> There is a ghost in the machine called “The Advancement of Learning”.  An
inside
> observer of the Salem Witch Trials called it “the prejudice of education”.
The
> prejudice of the Enlightenment of Grace.
>
> There is a similar prejudice of education in the Secular enlightenment.  In
the
> film you can see it leaving the machines and entering the men dialing the
dials.
>
> >From Trinity to AI is a short story of The Advancement of Learning.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> From: Humanist<humanist@dhhumanist.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 2:18 AM
> To: Mcgann, Jerome (jjm2f)<jjm2f@virginia.edu>
> Subject: [Humanist] 37.156: limits to one's attention?
>
>                Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 156.
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>
>          Date: 2023-08-01 06:36:22+00:00
>          From: Willard McCarty<willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
>          Subject: limits?
>
> Here's a question. It hardly needs saying that to get anything done, we
> need to set limits to the scope of our professional and scholarly
> attention--by analogy with visual perception, to what falls within our
> central vision. But then there's the peripheral. Consider, for example,
> consciousness research, specifically the following event announced by
> the Center for Consciousness Studies <ww.consciousness.arizona.edu> at
> the University of Arizona. In particular note what it says about the
> grip that 'AI' has on neuroscience, and by extension on what we tend to
> think about thinking. Should the debate furthered by this event be on
> the 'radar' of digital humanities, if only awareness that it is happening?
>
> Comments?
>
> Yours,
> WM
>
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