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of our ordinary life, or we are dominated by the system of cards: the form of the
card is the same thin and easily accessible form (iso-morphic), but each card
functions differently (hetero-function). So, at the first sight, we cannot recognize
the aim of the machine. It is invisible.
Today, even the personal computer is composed on the form of the iPhone or
smart-phone or tablet: very fine but very small and thin. Through the screen, we can
contact others and get the news and information from all over the world at a certain
moment. This tablet has a dictionary function and contains resources of historical
and intellectual knowledge.
10.3 Technological Abstraction and Technological
Conjuncture or Cohesion
What is abstraction in technological conjuncture? It is different from logical
abstraction.
The ultimate aim of technological conjuncture or cohesion is to diminish the
time process, that is to say, to do everything rapidly, thinking only of the effective
result. It is possible to combine machines with computers. Economic effects are
especially clear and distinct (clara et distincta) results of technological cohesion or
conjuncture. The technology itself is an embodied system of logics. As a result,
process itself became technologically invisible, and we enjoy our life uncon-
sciously by using the keyboard or touching the screen with thumb and fingers to
introduce persons into the technological conjuncture or cohesion. We are
surrounded by such a circumstance and easily enter into the Internet system.
Thus, the analysis of the technological conjuncture or cohesion is very fruitful,
because we find new concepts such as neighbor newly defined insofar as neighbors
are connected by technological conjuncture or cohesion by the Internet or iPhone or
smart-phone on a worldwide scale. And a new kind of friendship has occurred in a
world - namely, a kind of virtue, philoxenia (love of strangers) (cf. Kemp,
Philoxenia—une vertu eco-´thique, read in Tokyo, 2010, at 29th eco-ethica Sym-
posium). The technological conjuncture or cohesion makes for a new, peaceful
relationship between people.
In 1965, Tomonobu Imamichi presented “eco-ethica” as the new ethics for the
technological era. 'Eco' means house or, in a wider meaning, a living place or
environment. But through technological conjuncture or cohesion, human activities
were enlarged, on the one hand, in the direction of cosmic intersidereal space and,
on the other hand, in the direction of microscopic nanospace. Eco-ethica is the
fundamental philosophical ethics for such a wide space of human action. As a
first step, it is necessary to think philosophically about technology itself. But it is
not only an objective observation on phenomenal technology but also on the
existence of human beings and the ethical attitude to nature, technology, and
other human beings.
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