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This is the first piece of a three-part article about the allegorical aspects of the legend of the Golem and its epistemological, political and ethical implications in our Internet plugged-in connected times. There are three sets of Golem allegories that may refer to questions relating either to language and knowledge, work and technique, or life and existence.

This inquiry illustrates how Peirce’s concept of habit-change is foundational to inference-making.  A 1911 manuscript features how, within the initial five years, children translate dynamic belief structures into action-habits.   Insightful belief structures recommending behavior change operate as primary agents to discover new meanings.  Ultimately, these novel belief structures cultivate novel explanations to resolve real-world problems/unexpected consequences.

The focus of this article is to further explore the debate of the experts as illustrated in Spike Jonze’s science-fiction film Her (2013) which is telling the story about a man falling in love with his operative system. The analytic approach is semiotic by the way of Lacan’s interpretation of Peirce’s three categories in the development of his notion of the Imaginary order and its links to narcissism.

This paper is a critique of Niyi Osundare’s The Man Who Walked Away as a satiric and protest play focusing on its themes of poverty and unemployment as reflecting the deplorable socio-economic state of Nigeria.

Diagrammatic attachments for a work in progress.