Chapter 1:_The physical and the automaton, introducing the radical dyad of the non-human_
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Abstract
The radical dyad of the non-human is sustainable as such if neither the unstoppable chatter of the automaton subjects the physical part nor does the physicality prevail over language through some form of catatonia. The latter is possible, however, if the automaton fails to resume after an instance of tuché intervenes. The automaton, if detached or radically indifferent to the physical, is indifferent to its failure. The opposite is the prerequisite for a post-philosophical and scientific thought: the assumption that the real is indifferent to thought’s aspirations or, simply, to the pretensions of the signifying automaton, as per the non-philosophical theory of the PSP. If signification collapses, a physicality that borders with the prelingual (if organic or living) or numb physicality utterly indifferent to the automaton and thought remains almost unaffected. We can call this state catatonic only because some forms of materiality can experience the physical state of deprivation from the transcendental or language. This is a dystopic phantasm—an irreversible collapse of signification as endless variety of automation is hardly imaginable, the physical has always been subject to human ruse (as metis) and, therefore, exploitation. Vernant’s materialist genealogy of the Ancient Greek common sense, religious and technological idea of metis, demonstrates that the subsequent philosophisations of the notion are based on the principle of philosophical sufficiency; i.e., they appear detached from the political practice out of which the Greek invention of logos emerged (Vernant, 1984).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".