pt. 1. Self-knowledge and the assumption of agency -- pt. 2. Interaction, maintenance of agency and the unexplained act -- pt. 3. Technology as agent
Summary
The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and€examines what Turing's assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis à vis humans have been characterized since Turing, and seeks to reverse the trend of looking closely at the machine by asking what humans know in interaction and how they know it.€This book€characterizes a non-human agent that shows itself in interaction but is distinct from human agency: an agent acting with us in our ongoing reproduction and transformation of structure. Turing predicted that at the end of the twentieth century, w
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-164) and index
