1st Edition
Unconscious Networks Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Artificial Intelligence
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
Biography
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).
"Unconscious Networks is an ambitious and original contribution to both psychoanalysis and (philosophy of) artificial intelligence. Possati argues that we should return to a Freud initial view that psychoanalysis is part of the natural sciences. This is an original move and not only throws an interesting light on a somewhat forgotten (or surpressed) dimension of psychoanalysis, but it also enables Possati to establish a different connection between psychoanalysis and AI, especially by using Deacon as a biosemiotics link between those two domains. I expect Unconscious Networks will also receive praise because of its innovative new approach to the connection of psychoanalysis and AI, both from the domain of psychoanalysis and of AI research."
Jos de Mul, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
