2015
Artificial Intelligence in SF as a Model of the Posthuman Situation of Mankind
KOTÁSEK, MiroslavBasic 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 |
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