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THESIS STATEMENT

Before the digital age, human existence was limited to a static relation with external reality. Nowadays, the raise of the software permits to mirror our mind outside of us in a dynamic environment allowing a new existential space to be discovered. In this research project, I will explore some of the main topics of what it could be new human existentialism triggered by digital technologies, against the mainstream and fictional idea of a conscious machine.

OUTLINE

Intro

• How in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) there is a focus on the Computer, at its extreme with the idea of the AI that in any case remains a dream of pure fiction.
• On the other hand, Human existence still determines freely our life against apparent materiality always perceived from an existential being.
• Externalise a human perspective should be a way to observe ourselves from the outside to understand better our existence rather than emphasize the myth of the other in the form of sentient machines or uncontrollable technologies.
• Following the conclusions of my past research projects I will develop a map of relations between humans and machines allowing to explore existential problems from their reflection into digital technologies.

Body

• mapping machines to mirror the human mind
• body/mind and hardware/software
• the language maze
• infinite space
• subject-object model
• the limit of consciousness (subjectivity and proto-subjectivity)
• eroticism: the transgression of the limit
• interface: the dissolutions of the object
• the 'iperself'

Conclusion Through digital technologies, it is possible to develop a human existential discourse that transcends the standard conception of human-computer relation enlighting a more deep understanding of humans beings and the extension of their mind into the material world.