Ciber-seres en la literatura Lozano Torres, David Sebastian
Revista colombiana de filosofía de la ciencia,
12/2023, Letnik:
23, Številka:
47
Journal Article
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El propósito de este texto es abordar la problemática de las inteligencias artificiales y su incidencia en la sociedad contemporánea. Para ello, se realizan lecturas paralelas de las sociedades ...distópicas creadas por Isaac Asimov y Philip K. Dick. A partir de estas, se identifican algunos rasgos existentes en nuestro contexto inmediato, enfocándonos en tres ejes principales: la sociedad de vigilancia y control tecnológico, el problema de lo natural en los ciber-seres, y la visión del siglo XXI en la ciencia ficción para analizar si esta es ilusoria o, por el contrario, forma parte de nuestra realidad inmediata. Todo esto con el fin de definir al género como un espejo de nuestro futuro, basándonos en la lectura de nuestro presente para interpretar los mundos posibles y el futuro como fuente de reflexión filosófica y tecnológica. En este artículo, analizaremos a grandes rasgos los elementos de la ciencia ficción de Isaac Asimov y Philip K. Dick, enfocándonos en aspectos como la naturalidad de los individuos, las sociedades de control y las líneas que separan lo humano de lo artificial como bases para la reflexión filosófica. A través de este ejercicio, examinaremos diversas obras de ambos autores, tales como El hombre bicentenario (Asimov 2019b), Satisfacción Garantizada (Asimov 2019a), La última pregunta (Asimov 2019a), ¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas? (Dick 2017) y El hombre en el castillo (Dick 2021). El objetivo es identificar elementos que nos permitan interpretar el siglo XXI como una obra de ciencia ficción en constante desarrollo.
Parece que en el fin de nuestra evolución biológica, el objetivo máximo será que los humanos tengamos una inteligencia inimaginable. ¿Pero cuáles humanos? A veces este término confunde, de igual ...manera la otra pregunta sería ¿Qué tipo de inteligencia? ¿Inteligencia artificial? ¿Inteligencia artificial integrada en nuestros cerebros? ¿Y quiénes necesitaríamos esa inteligencia artificial?
Diversos académicos han analizado la influencia de Toynbee y Spengler en la conocida saga Foundation, escrita por Isaac Asimov y considerada una de las más importantes de la ciencia ficción. Sin ...embargo, nuestra hipótesis es que, si bien existe un cierto diálogo transtextual con los trabajos de ambos autores, es en la obra del historiador griego Polibio, Historias, donde se halla la principal relación de tipo hipertextual. Comparando la anaciclosis descrita por Polibio con la evolución política que Asimov narra en sus novelas, comprobamos que las semejanzas no solo alcanzan a los diferentes sistemas de gobierno, sino incluso a la misma secuencia en que estos se suceden. El resultado es una obra que permite una interesante lectura palimpséstica, enriqueciendo sensiblemente la experiencia del lector con formación humanística.
This thesis is a novel, showing the psychological journey of James Hamilton Blades, as he recovers from mental illness. It details in particular the female patients he meets along the way. These ...women help him realize his best self. Also, the novel shows him getting better by showing various treatments, including dialectical therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Our hero learns what cognitive distortions he has and how to separate himself from his overbearing mother. Also James deals with hallucinations and visions which are part of his mental illness, schizoaffective disorder. He also falls in love, which is a fun kind of madness. In the end he returns to school after a long absence and starts a new adventure.
While humans in the twenty-first century are still troubled by controversial issues such as race, gender, and class, a non-human movement has been restlessly advancing in the past few years, ...prompting people to reexamine their connection with Artificial Intelligence in a range of forms. Reading stories from Issac Asimov's classic short story collection, I Robot, Chang aims to investigate the problem of humanlike robots, their challenges, and their potential impact. The story tells of the intimate relationship between a girl called Gloria and a robot called Robbie, their separation due to the doubt cast on Robbie by Gloria's parents and neighbors, and their reunion after a range of trials and frustrations.
Introducing ideas about genome editing and its implications broadens discussions about human reproduction from fertility clinics and prospective parents to organisations and governments worldwide. 40 ...years after the first baby was born by in-vitro fertilisation, the game changing technique of CRISPR-Cas9, which enables precise alterations of DNA sequences in living cells, has once again sparked heated argument about the use of interventions selecting for traits and against diseases of human beings. Picking a preferred genetic profile by would-be parents might be seen to be offending the essential dignity and nature of the person as a free and independent human being able to enjoy equal civil rights. Safety concerns about the use of CRISPR-Cas9 have recently been raised after researchers identified genomic damage in regions unrelated to the cut site in a study on mouse stem cells, mouse haematopoietic progenitors, and human differentiated cell lines.
Event host Ali Floyd, Public Engagement Manager at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research at the University of Dundee, Dundee, UK, opened the session by asking members of the audience to ...raise their thumbs, keep them level, or point them downwards depending on how they felt about the use of GM insects—a fairly equal spread of thumbs up and thumbs level signalled the crowd was open to debate on the topic, which Floyd then facilitated by inviting the three guest speakers to deliver short talks, before opening the floor to questions from the audience. Prof Helen Sang, Chair of Vertebrate Molecular Development at The Roslin Institute in the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, introduced the audience to the concept of genetic modification using local examples, such as Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, and the Roslin's research to give chickens resistance to avian influenza and tackle porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in pigs. The future of GM insects was then considered by Prof Luke Alphey, Vector-borne Viral Diseases Group Leader at the Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK, who examined the key features of GM technology, explaining that it is species specific and target seeking; mosquitoes will only breed with other mosquitoes and males will actively look for females.
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