CONCEPT
Interobjectivity
Entities do not exist independently but are constituted by their relationships — the hyperobject is the environment, and the environment is the hyperobject.
Interobjectivity is Morton's fifth hyperobject property, rooted in object-oriented ontology's paradox: objects are simultaneously withdrawn (exceeding their relations) and relational (partly constituted by those relations). Applied to hyperobjects, interobjectivity means the entity and its 'environment' cannot be separated. Climate change is not an independent thing affecting ecosystems; it is constituted by relationships with oceans, forests, ice sheets, and human economies. Applied to AI, interobjectivity dissolves the human/tool binary. The human using AI is restructured by the use; the AI-in-use is shaped by the human's inputs. The result is an interobjective system producing effects attributable to neither component in isolation.
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Standard framings assume separability: 'Humans use AI tools.' Subject, verb, object. The human is agent, AI is instrument. The relationship is use — the human picks up the tool, employs it, puts it down. Each retains its identity across the interaction. Interobjectivity denies this. The human who uses AI is not the human who existed before use. The use restructures the user — cognitive habits,