embodiment

2018-09-26

My teacher was a computer

Computers already make our prepackaged lunches sold at seven elevens and manage a plethora of tasks in every area of our society. Why couldn’t computers also be teachers? The above example is imaginary, but based on the current hype of artificial intelligence (AI) it is becoming more real with each passing day. This development may not necessarily be bad, as with many other fields of work, transferring tasks from humans to robots may have a lot of beneficial sides. Already many schools are using software to find plagiarism in students texts or using intelligent learning systems that can help students…

2017-06-14

Grasping the digital

A Recent article (not yet published) I wrote with my brother examines some of the difficult questions raising from the increased use of digital technologies. For example, digitalization can be seen to act as an almost mythological buzzword for progress. But, what does digitalization mean? How do we live in the digital world? In our article we argue for a more embodied understanding of digital technologies is needed to participate in the discussion of the digital world; without experiental, embodied understanding, it can be difficult to comprehend what digital is and how it affects as well as appears in one's…