This article aims to analyse the philosophical impact of the diffusion of human technosciences, with specific respect to the effects of anthropological reductionism on the distinction between human nature and human condition. In particular, two technoscientific sectors are investigated: genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, in order to identify the two concepts around which the risks of reductionism are focused: the concept of genetic ‘error’ and the one of ‘noise’ in the process of construction of meaning. Human complexity needs of appropriate ‘problematization’ considering the exponential contemporary increase of contingency of social systems and the techno-scientific challenge to create, in the next decades, thinking machines and computer systems which could substitute humans.
TECNOSCIENZE E COMPLESSITÀ UMANA I concetti di ‘errore’ e ‘rumore’ ed i rischi di riduzionismo
Castorina, Rosanna
2013
Abstract
This article aims to analyse the philosophical impact of the diffusion of human technosciences, with specific respect to the effects of anthropological reductionism on the distinction between human nature and human condition. In particular, two technoscientific sectors are investigated: genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, in order to identify the two concepts around which the risks of reductionism are focused: the concept of genetic ‘error’ and the one of ‘noise’ in the process of construction of meaning. Human complexity needs of appropriate ‘problematization’ considering the exponential contemporary increase of contingency of social systems and the techno-scientific challenge to create, in the next decades, thinking machines and computer systems which could substitute humans.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
