End of humankind, machine's victory? questionings of technological singularity

• Grant number: 18/07400-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2018
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Peixoto Ferreira
• Grantee: Fabiano Galletti Faleiros
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this project, I aim to discuss the speech over technological Singularity, which is characterized by the enthusiasm for the overcoming of humankind by the machine. I intend to analyses a few excerpts written by Raymond Kurzweil, the leading author of this thought, searching to understand his theoretical basis. From this point, I will suggest others points of view over technological development, based on Gilbert Simondon's work, which would be able to contrast and relativize the singularities’ perspectives. The hypothesis is that Singularity's outlines do not only mobilize empirical data, but many values of social world as well. My purpose with this work is to contribute with the sociological discussion, searching, in the works written by the studied authors: the diverse understandings regarding social justice; the different nexus between nature and society; and the multiple meanings over being human. I aim to find and purpose a possible relation between the human being and the technology, in a more symmetrical way. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FALEIROS, Fabiano Galletti. End of humankind, machine's victory?: questionings of technological Singulatiry. 2021. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.