The purpose of this study is to identify themotivations that drive the agent's search for technologicalnovelty.First, a hypothesis on a concrete human want and its motivationalimplications is presented.According to this hypothesis, there is a basichuman desire to avoid physical effort beyond a...

This paper analyzes how the qualitative change in human labor occurs in mutual dependence with the advancement of the epistemic base of technology. Historically, a recurrent pattern can be identified: humans learned to successively transfer labor qualities to machines. The subsequent release of...