Stoic Indifferents vs. Embodied AI

1 daly 0 4/27/2025, 7:19:10 AM

Stoics concept of Indifferents sees externals as neither good nor bad. The example of a knife, used for meat or murder, has no intrinsic good or bad.

However, the Stoics view might change if embodied AI exists, e.g. in a robot. Now externals have "agency" and possibly have an intrinsic good or bad.

Robots with agency is going to have an interesting impact on philosophy.

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Stoic Indifferents vs. Embodied AI

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