Practical Philosophy, Generative AI and Coaching

Practical Philosophy, Generative AI and Coaching udemy course

Uncover the transformative potential of AI and how it can shape the future for humanity and coaching

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a burning debate worldwide about whether new AI technologies will replace human jobs. However, this extremely human-centric argument appears to overlook one crucial point.

Technology continually reshapes our lives and professions.

This course offers a unique opportunity to explore the profound implications of generative AI on coaching and humanity. Leveraging the philosophical frameworks provided by thinkers like Fernando Flores, who explores human-computer interaction, Eugen Herrigel, who mastered Japanese Zen through practicing Japanese archery and introduced it to the Western world, Alvin Toffler's insights into technological change, and Kiyoshi Miki's perspectives on action and transformation, we invite participants to a deep dive into the symbiosis between humanity and technology.

Participants will explore pivotal questions such as:

How can emerging technologies challenge our perceptions of human and coaching?

How does this perspective shape the ethical development and application of AI in coaching?

In what ways can technology foster a more humble humanity?

Fernando Flores (1943~)

Questions such as “Can computers think?”, “Can computers understand language?”, and “What is rational decision-making?” comes from a background of understanding that needs to be reexamined and revised.

All new technologies develop within the background of a tacit understanding of human nature and human work and the use of technology in turn leads to fundamental change in what we do, and ultimately in what it is to be human.

We must reveal the implicit understanding of human language, thought, and work that serves as a background for developments in computer technology in order to become aware of the effects that computers have on our society, “the rationalistic tradition.”

A new direction of designing computer-based systems which does not intend to create tools that accommodate existing systemic domains of human activities, but support human in creating new domains.

Eugen Herrigel (1884-1955)

This state, in which nothing definite is thought, planned, striven for, desired or expected, which aims in nor particular direction and yet knows itself capable alike of the possible and the impossible, so unswerving it its power – this state, which is at bottom purposeless and egoless, was called by the Master truly “spiritual.” It is in fact charged with spiritual awareness and is therefore also called “right presence of mind.”

Alvin Toffler (1928-2016)

“Indust-reality”, “a powerful and coherent world view emerged that not only explained but justified Second Wave reality,” has three deeply intertwined beliefs;

1) Human should hold dominion over nature,

2) Human are the pinnacle of a long process of evolution,

3) History flows irreversibly toward a better life for humanity .

As the Third Wave dawns, our own planet seems much smaller and more vulnerable. Our place in the universe seems less grandiose.

Kiyoshi Miki (1897-1945)

Traditional philosophy had regarded "action" as something initiated by human will upon the external world. However, a truly understood "action" involves humans transcending their subjective perspective, encountering the historical reality as a created entity, modifying its "form," and creating new "forms."

Miki referred to this process of altering the conventional "form" as "transformation."