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Scybernethics: Blueprints for Collective Autonomy and Digital Democracy

(Elaborated with the help of a LLM) °°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction The assertion that Scybernethics offers the specifications—the design patterns—for the digital tools and reflexive practices necessary for modern society to sustain its collective autonomy against forces of control and cognitive dependency can be explained and detailed through its core integration of enactive theory, critical social philosophy, …

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Power, Care and Democratic Enaction – A Scybernethics Proposal

(Elaborated with the help of a LLM) °°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction In the face of today’s multi-scalar crises—social, ecological, epistemic—the urgent call for interdisciplinary dialogue is clearer than ever. The conference “Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy,” (27th-31st May 2026, convened by Mind & Life Europe and hosted by Universitat Pompeu Fabra), signals precisely …

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AI, Enactment, and Democratic Self-Governance

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction The application of new AI technologies, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML), to strengthen democracy must be carefully scrutinized through the lens of Ezequiel Di Paolo’s enactive philosophy and Barbara Stiegler’s critique of expertocracy, as these thinkers challenge the foundational computational and elitist assumptions often underlying such technologies. Based …

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How to Use AI to Empower Democracy? (ChatGPT answer, POC)

°°°°~x§x-<@> Question How can we use PDP (Parallel Distributed Processing) AI / “machine learning” techs to strengthen democratic individual collective intelligence and counter the excessive self-destructive and convergent path (fascism) of global neoliberal capitalism ? ChatGPT answer Great — love this question. I’ll answer in three parts: (A) how the PDP/connectionist paradigm maps onto collective …

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