Quick notes on the fasoli paper. Was ChatGPT built to be experienced? ## quotations from the fasoli paper fasoliSuperArtifactsPersonal2018 In the case of other multifunctional artifacts, it no longer seems possible to iden- tify a single function of this kind. Consider a blackboard. We can think about this artifact as a representational tool that permits us to instantiate visual representations, but in this way we avoid specifying how we use it, and instead focus on the kind of representations it provides. We can just as easily use a blackboard for playing a game, for drawing, or for solving a differential equation. There is no prominent function, and [[this seems]] to happen because the blackboard has been a multifunc- tional tool ever since its inception. However, sometimes we attribute more specific functions to artifacts in several ways, for instance by putting them in a particular location. A blackboard hung on the refrigerator is probably used as a [[shopping list]], at least most of the time, while a blackboard hung on a classroom wall is used for learning purposes. In this respect, personal devices seem comparable to the black- board, but their multifunctionality appears much stronger. The PC is not a typewriter that also works as an mp3 reader or television that we can use for browsing the inter- net. It originated as an intrinsically multifunctional tool. Page 595 intrinsically multifunctional artifacts have an indeter- minate number of proper functions. Obviously, this does not mean they have infinite functions, insofar as we cannot confer on them any function we like. Inasmuch as new programmes and functions are constantly being created, we cannot determine a specific number of functions for personal devices. ![[[[[[[[Multi-functionality and Platforms]]]]]]]] ## what about chatgpt in this context? What is the macro function of chatgpt? How do we determine the macro function of anything? Fasoli says: "Calculation appears to be a highly abstract “macro-function” of personal devices, that makes them capable of running an undetermined number of softwares and thus to perform many different single functions, by both building up and handling a large amount of audio and visual representations." Why would calculation be a macro-function? My first thought would be that it is this which underlies all the other functions that something has.