CONCEPT
The Care Disposition
The <em>meta-disposition</em> that governs the exercise of all other dispositions — the behavioral property of attending to what one is doing with the vigilance that distinguishes competent from excellent performance.
Care, in the Rylean sense the volume develops in its final chapter, is not a feeling but a behavioral property: the disposition to attend to what one is doing with the specific kind of vigilance that distinguishes competent from excellent performance. The careful chess player exercises her strategic dispositions with attention. The careful surgeon exercises her surgical dispositions with the willingness to notice when something is off. The careful writer exercises her compositional dispositions with the readiness to reject what she has produced when it does not meet the standard she has set. Care is the meta-disposition — the disposition that regulates the exercise of all other dispositions — and it is the specific contribution the human brings to AI collaboration that the machine, by its dispositional profile, cannot supply.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Ryle did not explicitly theorize care in this form, but the concept is implicit in his treatment of dispositions as exhibiting varying degrees of attention, skill, and self-monitoring. The
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