Intellectual Artifices: posthuman scenarios, autopoietic machines, and embodied minds in new paradigms of artificial intelligence

Abstract

Initially, this essay establishes the basis for a philosophical discussion on the emergence of the current posthumanist paradigm using as a focus point the work of Giorgio Agamben and Donna Haraway. It also explores the metaphor mind/computer, and its significance in the development of cognitive pasychology. The discussion centers on the constitution of an artificial intelligence imaginary that uses as a fundamental point the anthropomorphization of information processing. Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela’s proposal is considered, since it attempts to rethink the study of life as a continuous process of self-organization. This model has emerged as a new direction paradigm of biological organization, with much more inclusive intentions in theoretical terms than traditional biology . Furthermore, it returns to the link between the model of biological self-organization and its tangency with the human metaphor, incorporated under the concept of the cyborg. Finally, consideration is given to the work of Jean Baudrillard regarding the culture of the simulacrum, and the idea of a habitat dominated by processes of simulation, as it stands in Sherry Turkle’s writings. Although the current paradigm of study and design of the AI claims a distancing of the anthropomorphic paradigm, the rupture is not total, and for this reason it is necessary to observe the way in which the culture of the simulacrum incorporates some contemporary instances that allow notions of the posthuman most suitable for the design of technology of simulation.