Dialogues with the Future
AI Socratic Exploration of Christopher Alexander’s 15 Foundational Properties for Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10273487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dongchen Zhu (0000-0002-4341-9886, Dan Zhu, Loughborough University, Epinal Way Loughborough, Leicestershire UK, LE11 3TU. TH Koeln - University of Applied Sciences, Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 54, 50968 Koeln. Email: [email protected].), Peter Frie (0009-0006-9338-6011, Peter Friess, Boulevard d’Ypres, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. Email: [email protected].), Peter Friess (Médecins Sans Frontières) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_02625 |
| OpenAlex | W4403810628 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can provide novel insight into how complex lifeforms will evolve. Investigating the hypothesis that this evolution will follow the 15 fundamental properties listed in Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order, this art project recruits AI to impersonate Socrates and domain experts to probe refutational and constructive elements as a means of facilitating meaningful discourse. The fictional dialogues and their core outcomes are transferred into AI generative visual representations. The project concludes with a synthesis of the insights gained from the exploration, providing a narrative about the Nature of Order as a vision of augmented wisdom
Art · Art history · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Socratic method · Socratic questioning · Philosophy · Psychology · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |