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Loops of Augmentation: Bootstrapping, Time Travel, and Consequent Futures

Chapter of: Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas(pp. 157–168)

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TitleLoops of Augmentation
SubtitleBootstrapping, Time Travel, and Consequent Futures
ContributorBen Woodard(author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightBen Woodard
Publishermeson press
Published on2015-07-14
Long abstractThe essay examines the concept of bootstrapping as a model of augmentative reason in contemporary neorationalist philosophies. In particular, it examines the concept of bootstrapping, here meaning mental capacities or processes capable of self-augmentation. Well illustrated in numerous time-travel fictions, the genealogy of bootstrapping lies in the legacy of German Idealism and can be met in the figure of Münchhausen. Looking how the problem of origin, or of determining an ultimately stable ground, is replaced by horizon, or location, both determined through action, the essay proposes that the notions of embodiment and location prove troublesome for neorationalism.
Page rangepp. 157–168
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Ben Woodard

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PhD Student at Western University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6017-5193
https://naughtthought.wordpress.com/

Ben Woodard is a PhD student in Theory and Criticism at Western University. His work focuses on the naturalism of FWJ von Schelling and the status of nature in contemporary philosophy. He is most recently the author of On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy (Punctum, 2013).