Can AI Learn Tong通? Subtle Proximity and a Dao-Based Model of Intelligence. Mercator Lecture for AI in the Human Context by Prof. Robin Wang

Robin R. Wang is a Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, an internationally renowned expert on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy. Her Mercator Lecture introduces the Dui–Tong Problem—the divergence between correctness (對dui) and relational responsiveness (通tong). Drawing on the Zhuangzi, it develops Subtle Proximity as a Dao-based logic of continual relational repositioning for navigating this tension. The framework is articulated through five theses and five Daoist epistemic virtues, offering an alternative model of intelligence beyond prediction, calculation, and control.

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