Calculemus ! 1

AI, Number, and the Modern Solve et Coagula

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ID21374763
AuthorsRobert Etheredge Juliano (corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume67
Issue1-2
Pages66-78
Publication date2024-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2925 • E-ISSN: 1556-3030
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00332925.2024.2350343
OpenAlexW4402348816
LanguageEN
References cited24

In Aion, C. G. Jung demonstrated an important benefit of viewing a continual process of unfolding that does so over vast periods of time, namely the unfolding of the Self during the last two millennia. Careful attention to such time periods can reveal patterns and connections that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. Alternatively, it can deepen one’s experience of a pattern that is already known but perhaps not as highly valued in a given tradition. It is the latter that this paper intends to address—AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the pattern of increasing abstraction. Crucially, the advent of AI has long been prepared for. It emerges in Western culture, whose history displays the critical pattern of rapidly elevating abstraction, a pattern that has only partially been the result of human effort and intention. It is as if the unconscious itself had not only condoned this pattern but was in fact its author. It is the achievement of a certain level of abstraction that makes AI possible. If, indeed, the unconscious is the author of this pattern, then it is plausible that there is deeper purpose in AI’s manifestation at this time. The cultures of the past have had to, in their unique ways, endure hope and fear and take responsibility for their work on artificial life. This responsibility now falls on us, and it is critical that we understand artificial life in the modern form of AI and its deeper purpose in the 21st century

Physics · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies

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