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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

machines as mirrors for humans
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.