ABSTRACT
How do we invent the future? Whether or not we care about the future largely depends on how we view ourselves in a possible future – which, in turn, leads us to focus on what it means to a person that they exist over time or cease to exist. How you see the future depends on how you see yourself as connected with others or not. Humans do not share a universal consciousness, just as they do not share universal perceptions. Meaning-making in the Vygotskyan sense may be a universal and special feature of all humans, but this is precisely because it is cultural and not universal. Whether the biological body is perceived as a problem to be dealt with in achieving singularity by using engineering or as something that can lead to an enhancement of the human body, the singularist vision believes the creation of learning machines will gradually replace humans in the biological form we presently recognise. Intelligences will expand, as will pedagogic innovation.
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