Can a cybernetic society still leave room for irreducibly human qualities like ambiguity, conscience, dissent, and interior life? Otherwise, once governance runs through signals, scores, and feedback loops, we risk treating people less like citizens and more like nodes in a control system.
That’s Exactly the point I am leading to. The question of Agency. Humans have agency, machines don’t. A free society allows or permits or enables that agency, but there are still cybernetic principles regarding how all those free agents interact.
Can a cybernetic society still leave room for irreducibly human qualities like ambiguity, conscience, dissent, and interior life? Otherwise, once governance runs through signals, scores, and feedback loops, we risk treating people less like citizens and more like nodes in a control system.
That’s Exactly the point I am leading to. The question of Agency. Humans have agency, machines don’t. A free society allows or permits or enables that agency, but there are still cybernetic principles regarding how all those free agents interact.