In the immediate human sense recall that this was the health app that launched with no way to record your menstrual cycle (a very important aspect of health for about half of humanity, the half that makes new humans I should add.)
In the deeper sense, we might encode "humors" into the design of our system. Our knowledge is incomplete. (E.g. the microbiome, or the "interstitium" which has been called "a new organ" https://www.livescience.com/62128-interstitium-organ.html )
> Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways:
> The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.
> The attitude of the "I" towards "Thou", in a relationship in which the other is not separated by discrete bounds.
There is a subtle trap in thinking of the body as "it" (and also a trap in thinking of the body as "thou", and another as "I"). It behooves us to be careful what we automate.
In the immediate human sense recall that this was the health app that launched with no way to record your menstrual cycle (a very important aspect of health for about half of humanity, the half that makes new humans I should add.)
In the deeper sense, we might encode "humors" into the design of our system. Our knowledge is incomplete. (E.g. the microbiome, or the "interstitium" which has been called "a new organ" https://www.livescience.com/62128-interstitium-organ.html )
It's important that our data systems handle open-world rather than closed-world data, eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-world_assumption
(As a practitioner of Reiki I can attest that scientific medicine does not yet capture all relevant variables.)
Last but not least, the crux of the issue turns on what Martin Buber called "I and Thou": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou
> Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways:
> The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.
> The attitude of the "I" towards "Thou", in a relationship in which the other is not separated by discrete bounds.
There is a subtle trap in thinking of the body as "it" (and also a trap in thinking of the body as "thou", and another as "I"). It behooves us to be careful what we automate.