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Artificial Intelligence in SF as a Model of the Posthuman Situation of Mankind

KOTÁSEK, Miroslav

Basic information

Original name

Artificial Intelligence in SF as a Model of the Posthuman Situation of Mankind

Name in Czech

Umělá inteligence v SF: model posthumánní situace člověka

Authors

KOTÁSEK, Miroslav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

World Literature Studies, Bratislava, SAP - Slovak Academic Press, 2015, 1337-9275

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Field of Study

60204 General literature studies

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085052

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

UT WoS

000367274800007

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-84991677415

Keywords in English

Artificial Intelligence; Cognition; Cyberpunk; Posthumanism; Science fiction

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 20/1/2020 13:53, doc. Mgr. Jan Tlustý, Ph.D.

Abstract

In the original language

The article focuses on the way in which science fiction genre and scientific texts alike model the ideas of Western culture concerning the functioning of the human mind (brain or intelligence), its knowability, and the probability of its successful simulation. The most problematic issue arising is that this kind of text rests both on the idea of absolute knowability of the human mind (thus stepping outside the “strange loop” defined by Douglas Hofstadter) and on the belief in the possibility of creating such an artificial live system that would reconstruct exactly this "loop". The article sees the distinction between scientific and literary texts concerning artificial intelligence as problematic – the resulting "hybridity" is further employed and enhanced in connection with theories regarding “the posthuman”. Building upon the theories of autopoietic (self-referential) systems, the article concludes with an outline of a "theory of hybrid reading".

Links

ROZV/20/FF/KOT/2015, interní kód MU
Name: Podpora internacionalizace publikační činnosti 2015 - Kotásek
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR