HeyJaredPatrik Schumacher THESES
material and social freedom: seeing technology as driver for societal progress
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The Riddle of Phenomenal Consciousness (opens the original)
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what follows is only an extended abstract and outline:AbstractThis essay completes a trilogy. The first instalment argued that advanced artificial intelligence will take the form not of a unitary AGI but of a plurality of specialised competences co-evolving with the functional systems of a polycontextural society. The second asked whether reasoning-agentic large language models possess free will, and returned a qualified negative on functional and structural grounds — while deliberately bracketi
THESIS on Logic as Social Institution (opens the original)
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Logic Naturalised, Socialised, Historicised: Rule-Following, Finitism, Neural Networks and InstitutionsAbstractThe compulsion we experience in inference, calculation and classification is real, but it has no metaphysical ground. This paper argues that the phenomenon can be fully accounted for by a two-layer naturalism. The lower layer is sub-personal pattern recognition: a trained similarity space, finite in its inputs, underdetermined in its extensions, and best modelled by connectionist learni
THESIS on 21st Century Architecture (opens the original)
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Tectonism – A ManifestoWe are at a threshold. The discipline of architecture has spent over forty years adrift in a self-indulgent pluralism, mistaking its own fragmentation for freedom and its disorientation for richness. This manifesto declares that the interregnum is over. A new epochal style has matured – Parametricism – and within it a decisive sub-style has crystallised that now constitutes the most sophisticated, and most consequential architecture of our century: Tectonism.I declare Tect
THESIS on “Mental Health” (opens the original)
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AbstractOver recent decades, a new societal function system has been differentiating out of the health system — growing, as yet unrecognized, under the false flag of “mental health.” According to Luhmann’s theory of functional differentiation, modern society is a constellation of self-referentially closed, autopoietic function systems – societal domains specialized to fulfil key indispensable societal functions via professionalized and theoretically underpinned discourse practices: the economic
THESIS on South Africa’s Regression (opens the original)
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A Libertarian Account of Institutional Fragility, Political Patronage, Capital Consumption, and the Retreat from the StateIntroductionSouth Africa presents one of the clearest contemporary cases for thinking about the fragility of modern economic institutions. The peaceful transition from apartheid to liberal democracy in 1994 was an extraordinary political achievement. It appeared possible that South Africa could combine democratic inclusion with the sophisticated industrial, financial and admi
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