{"id":68234,"date":"2025-10-16T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68234"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:49:51","slug":"when-the-past-rolls-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/when-the-past-rolls-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Past Rolls into the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"What makes us special as human beings is our bodies. We experience reality through our body. AI has no body and no overarching spiritual organism that can change its habitat, as living beings do. The following is a comparative analysis from a scientific perspective.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe trend that led humans to live increasingly in a world of information did not originate in recent decades but rather stretches back centuries. With the advent of writing, a cultural technology emerged that allowed human beings to create a world\u2014a \u201ccorpus of knowledge.\u201d This corpus, or body, is so large that it is impossible to take in more than a tiny fraction of this vast world of knowledge and information within a single lifetime. So the question arises: on what basis do we consider ourselves capable of making<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes us special as human beings is our bodies. We experience reality through our body. AI has no body and no overarching spiritual organism that can change its habitat, as living beings do. The following is a comparative analysis from a scientific perspective. The trend that led humans to live increasingly in a world of information did not originate in recent decades but rather stretches back centuries. With the advent of writing, a cultural technology emerged that allowed human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9355,"featured_media":68022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11696],"tags":[11708,8798,11709],"class_list":["post-68234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-challenges-en","tag-ausgabe-39-40-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-42-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}