Unconscious Networks

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Artificial Intelligence

Luca M. Possati (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-38551-8 (ISBN)

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This book develops an original theoretical framework for understanding human-technology relations. The author’s approach, which he calls technoanalysis, analyzes artificial intelligence based on Freudian psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and Latour’s actor-network theory.

How can we communicate with AI to determine shared values and objectives? And what, ultimately, do we want from machines? These are crucial questions in our world, where the influence of AI-based technologies is rapidly growing. Unconscious dynamics influence AI and digital technology and understanding them is essential to better controlling AI systems. This book’s unique methodology— which combines psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and actor-network theory—reveals a radical reformulation of the problem of the human mind. Technoanalysis views the mind as a hybrid network of humans and nonhuman actants in constant interaction with one another. The author argues that human unconscious dynamics influence and shape technology, just as technology influences and shapes human unconscious dynamics. He proceeds to show how this conception of the relationship between the unconscious and technology can be applied to social robotics and AI.

Unconscious Networks will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in philosophy of technology, philosophy of artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, and science and technology studies.

Luca M. Possati is researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto, Portugal. He is the author of many books, including Software as Hermeneutics: A Philosophical and Historical Study (2022) and The Algorithmic Unconscious: How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI (Routledge, 2021).

Introduction

Overture

1. To Take Freud Seriously: Psychoanalysis as Natural Science

2. Reassembling the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Actor-Network Theory

3. Mediation and Anti-Mediation: Google Glass, the Metaverse, and Social Robotics

4. Looking through Replika: How to Psychoanalyze an AI Chatbot

5. From Turing to Peirce: A Semiotic Re-Interpretation of Computation

6. AI, Psychoanalysis, and the Critique of Identity

7. Cybernetic Derrida: The Différance and the Constitution of the Digital Object

Conclusions: A Planetary Negotiation

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-38551-0 / 1032385510
ISBN-13	978-1-032-38551-8 / 9781032385518
Zustand	Neuware