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Big Data and Changing Concepts of the Human

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  • Figdor, Carrie

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Big Data has the potential to enable unprecedentedly rigorous quantitative modeling of complex human social relationships and social structures. When such models are extended to non-human domains, they can undermine anthropocentric assumptions about the extent to which these relationships and structures are specifically human. Discoveries of relevant commonalities with non-humans may not make us less human, but they promise to challenge fundamental views of what it is to be human.

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  • Figdor, Carrie, 2019. "Big Data and Changing Concepts of the Human," European Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 27(3), pages 328-340, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:eurrev:v:27:y:2019:i:03:p:328-340_00
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