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The Logic of Artificial Machines

2023-09-01T13:37:22-05:00

The theory of artificial machines illuminates an epistemic framework for future contingent events such as the encounter with other types of conscious life in the universe, the hypothetical emergence of an artificial self-consciousness or technological singularity. It is an epistemic endeavor that will modify human ethical epistemological frameworks and subject-object relations. This theory explains self-consciousness as an autonomous exchange of signals, communicated physically and symbolically, by means of phenomenal domains shared by autopoietic machines of the same species within the global set of the biosphere, where the total of autopoietic machines evolves through co-emergent relationships. The features attributed to artificial machines depend on the representational availability of human self-consciousness as the only self-referential instance, in an autopoietic machine, involving more freedom of interactions developed in a complex system of self-referential processes. The autonomous causal development of the technological singularity would hypothetically create its own paradigms beyond human values or expectations, where the behavioral mimetic logic would be only a past trace in its transformations that no longer applies to the sustenance of its identity: an epistemic autonomy. However, autonomous updates of technological singularity should follow the Principle of Continuity that determines that all modification in complex systems occurs by degrees of change: a state in the future will be coherent with its development process, necessarily framed by its initial state and trajectory.

On the Role of Sympathy in Aesthetic Expression: Theódore Jouffroy and Sully Prudhomme

2024-05-06T16:35:12-05:00

The place of sympathy in the nineteenth-century aesthetic reflection is probably more prominent and extensive than what the histories of aesthetics have traditionally recognized. An interest in recovering theoretical arsenal that stimulates us to better understand the rich implications of this subjective and intersubjective phenomenon for art and aesthetic communication in general, in our highly aestheticized world, drives this article. It seeks to help disseminate and recognize the contributions of two thinkers of the French tradition, who are little remembered in the field of aesthetics: Théodore Jouffroy (1796-1842), who set a standard in the field of aesthetic reflection on sympathy, and Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907), who proposed a theory of expression in the arts based on sympathy. The paper explains the Théodore Jouffroy's understanding of the aesthetic as the realm of the expressive-symbolic, as well as his significant vision of the aesthetic fact, which integrates sympathy and expression in a relationship between subject and object. Likewise, it discusses the relationship between sympathy and aesthetic pleasure in the vision of this thinker. Later, Sully Prudhomme's theory on artistic expression is analyzed. The influence of Jouffroy on his work is argued; some points of contact and others in which Prudhomme distinguishes itself are determined.

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2022-12-20T11:39:23-06:00

Oliva Mendoza, Carlos; Anguiano Lagos, Omar (Comps.). (2023). Modernidad barroca y capitalismo. Debates sobre la obra de Bolívar Echeverría (Vol. 1). Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2024-02-20T12:34:12-06:00

Yébenes Escardó, Zenia. (2023). Hechos de tiempo. Herder.

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