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is a background of primary familiarity, which itself is not conscious and intended but is rather present in an unprominent way.

It is time to introduce some Heidegger more directly. What does this failure of AI show? First, that human existence involves a vast range of contextual knowledge which is inherently unformalizable, i.e. not just something very complicated but not the kind of thing that could ever be totalized into a set of algorithms in the first place. It is in Heidegger’s words a ‘background of . . . primary familiarity, which itself is not conscious and intended but is rather present in [an] unprominent way’ (H: 189).

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