Stephen Downes

In response to the session on AI Literacies for Open Educators in which Doug Belshaw said "To be 'literate'... you need to be part of a community" I launched a Mastodon thread of sorts discussing the idea and disagreeing with Belshaw. I won't re-argue that here, but instead point to the similarity with this article that asks whether Mary could know what it's like to experience red before she has ever seen a red thing. "Mary can know what it's like (KWIL) to see red in advance, and this squares perfectly with physicalism's bedrock: nothing mental is fundamental." In the 'literacy requires a community' argument, the corresponding 'mental' is (something like) intentionality.