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Main Author: Vidović, Danko Viktor
Format: Recurso digital
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2026
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19746805
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author Vidović, Danko Viktor
author_facet Vidović, Danko Viktor
contents <p>The emergence of artificial intelligence as a cultural and technological force has renewed fundamental questions about human identity, consciousness, and meaning. This work argues that AI's most significant contribution is not functional but philosophical: by isolating intelligence from consciousness with unprecedented clarity, it exposes a longstanding conflation between thinking and being. Drawing on the Cartesian legacy and its limits, the book traces a distinction between information processing — which machines perform — and meaning, which requires a conscious stance toward consequence. Through an examination of choice, coherence, love, attention, time, responsibility, humility, trust, courage, and freedom, it develops an orientation for navigating accelerated technological environments without surrendering presence or authorship. The central claim is that meaning is not a product of intelligence but a condition of being exposed to consequence — and that this condition cannot be replicated, automated, or replaced. The work proposes that the relationship between human and artificial intelligence is not competitive but relational, structured by what is here called the <em>and</em>: the space where orientation, responsibility, and meaning reside.</p>
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spellingShingle I AND AI: Being and the Digital Mirror
Vidović, Danko Viktor
philosophy of mind
Artificial Intelligence
Consciousness
meaning
human identity
technology and humanity
<p>The emergence of artificial intelligence as a cultural and technological force has renewed fundamental questions about human identity, consciousness, and meaning. This work argues that AI's most significant contribution is not functional but philosophical: by isolating intelligence from consciousness with unprecedented clarity, it exposes a longstanding conflation between thinking and being. Drawing on the Cartesian legacy and its limits, the book traces a distinction between information processing — which machines perform — and meaning, which requires a conscious stance toward consequence. Through an examination of choice, coherence, love, attention, time, responsibility, humility, trust, courage, and freedom, it develops an orientation for navigating accelerated technological environments without surrendering presence or authorship. The central claim is that meaning is not a product of intelligence but a condition of being exposed to consequence — and that this condition cannot be replicated, automated, or replaced. The work proposes that the relationship between human and artificial intelligence is not competitive but relational, structured by what is here called the <em>and</em>: the space where orientation, responsibility, and meaning reside.</p>
title I AND AI: Being and the Digital Mirror
topic philosophy of mind
Artificial Intelligence
Consciousness
meaning
human identity
technology and humanity
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19746805