Unconscious Networks

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Artificial Intelligence

Luca M. Possati (University of Porto, Portugal)

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English

Routledge
09 December 2022

Philosophy of mind; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy; Artificial intelligence; Human-computer interaction

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

This book develops an original theoretical framework for understanding human-technology relations. The author’s approach, which he calls technoanalysis, analyzes artificial intelligence based on Freudian psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and Latour’s actor-network theory.

How can we communicate with AI to determine shared values and objectives? And what, ultimately, do we want from machines? These are crucial questions in our world, where the influence of AI-based technologies is rapidly growing. Unconscious dynamics influence AI and digital technology and understanding them is essential to better controlling AI systems. This book’s unique methodology— which combines psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and actor-network theory—reveals a radical reformulation of the problem of the human mind. Technoanalysis views the mind as a hybrid network of humans and nonhuman actants in constant interaction with one another. The author argues that human unconscious dynamics influence and shape technology, just as technology influences and shapes human unconscious dynamics. He proceeds to show how this conception of the relationship between the unconscious and technology can be applied to social robotics and AI.

Unconscious Networks will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in philosophy of technology, philosophy of artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, and science and technology studies.

By: Luca M. Possati (University of Porto Portugal)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 671g
ISBN: 9781032385518
ISBN 10: 1032385510
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 09 December 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Unconscious Networks: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Artificial Intelligence

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. Probably his approach will be criticized both by critics that regard psychoanalysis as outmoded altogether, and by Lacanians and other representatives of the hermeneutic tradition in psychoanalysis. But 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. ~ Anonymous review