Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

 
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The Obfuscation of Intelligence — Part 4…

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

Richard Schutte

Richard Schutte

Innovation, Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Complexity, Leadership & Community Twitter: @complexityvoid

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence”…

— Jean Baudrillard

obfuscate

/ˈɒb.fʌs.keɪt/ ˈɑːb.fə.skeɪt

to throw into shadow

confuse

to be evasive, unclear, or confusing

to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally

“The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying!”…

— Rene Magritte

Please read — A Semiotic Painting Magritte’s point was to remind viewers that his representation of oil smeared on parchment is not a pipe. It is a symbol [ LINK ]

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