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This paper explores a technical unfinished half-method [Halbzeug] of a metaphorology (Blumenberg) of the technological other in its variations and the philosophical mise-en-scène of the techno-social uncanny. The roboticist Mori had revived the concept of a technological uncanny in human machine interaction in the spatial metaphor derived from a diagram of an uncanny valley in the reaction of a human being shaking an artificial hand in order to show why we feel a certain eeriness in relation to technological artefacts, a topic that gains importance today to reflect human technological automata relations with robots/AI/Avatars that mimic and socially resonate with humans and may even drive further technological transhumanism. Although in an artefact design approach uncanniness is said to be avoided in the human-like automaton-human encounter this paper dwells on the critic of techno-social otherness avoidance by technological overcoming of obstacles and thus argues for a cybernetic uncanny that can’t be avoided. This paper introduces in a broader sense than Mori’s a philosophical dramaturgy of Emmanuel Levinas’ temporal notion of the relation to the other, including a preliminary metaphorological variation of the temporal techno-social uncanny.
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Humans, Robots, Temporality, Humanity, Automata, Artificial intelligence, Fear, Time perception, Phenomena, Rubber Hand
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GERNER, ALEXANDER MATTHIAS. "Towards the Techno-social Uncanny." Revista Portuguesa De Filosofia 75, no. 4 (2019): 2171-206. Accessed June 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/26869266.
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Department of Philosophy of the Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga at the Catholic University of Portugal