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Synchronizing Everything to the Digitized World

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Globally, the collapse of democracy is perceived as a crisis, and some say that the world governed by the AI driven systems or the central control by the tyrannic government is a dystopia. However, in the COVID-19 pandemic, rather, the negative aspects of democratic governance and human rights that caused the spread of the infection should not be ignored. As the author pointed out the relevance of the AI’s ubiquity to our cyber-physical world (Shibuya, 2020a), while Spinoza’s pantheistic ethics (2008) and Eastern thought may reach this context. Here, the author looks beyond the conflicts between Eastness and Westness to consider what kind of our life world is being reconstituted by digital transformation.

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Shibuya, K. (2022). Synchronizing Everything to the Digitized World. In: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Pandemic Society. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0950-4_7

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