#Artificial #Intelligence gives credibility to Iain McGilchrist’s argument in "The Master and His Emissary." The original Axial Age primarily came about through the function of the right-hemisphere of the brain, where intellectual curiosity was fueled by a living sense of the whole, a depth of attention, and a consciousness that was an encounter rather than a calculation. What we are witnessing today is a dismantling of that age. #Technology is the amplifier of the left-hemisphere. It will calculate, it will fragmentize, it will manage and it will optimize. In its drive to make everything explicit, it will prefer the map over the territory. We are witnessing the Emissary displacing the Master in real time.