Italiano [English below]
Nel Settembre 2021 sono stato invitato da Bill Seaman, docente alla Duke University, a intervenire alla conferenza internazionale “Theoretical and Foundational Problems in Information Studies“, nella sessione speciale “Neosentience, Biomimetics, and the Insight Engine 2.0“. Di questo ho scritto in un post precedente, dove ho anche pubblicato l’abstract e il video del mio intervento.
Con piacere annuncio ora che il mio intervento è stato pubblicato negli atti (“Outsourcing Life”, in Proceedings 81, n. 1, 1057, 2022).
Abstract:
Humans have always been inspired by the living, representing, simulating, and emulating it. Today we are witnessing the extension of life into a “Third Life”—the “First Life” being the biological life and the “Second Life” the life in the symbolic dimension—that expands Nature. This process is consistent with the progressive externalisation outside the body of human functions and activities, in the beginning of body parts, then of knowledge and memory, then of activities and labor, and finally of some narrow reasoning and autonomous action. In the future, increasingly human activities will be externalised, evolving into Third Life.
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- Analog and digital
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- The Third Life
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- The externalization process
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- Art, Nature and Life
In September 2021 I was invited by Bill Seaman, professor at Duke University, to participate at the international conference “Theoretical and Foundational Problems in Information Studies“, in the special session “Neosentience, Biomimetics, and the Insight Engine 2.0“. I wrote about this in a previous post, where I have also published the abstract and the video of my speech.
With pleasure I can announce that my presentation has been published in the proceedings (“Outsourcing Life”, in Proceedings 81, n. 1, 1057, 2022).
Abstract:
Humans have always been inspired by the living, representing, simulating, and emulating it. Today we are witnessing the extension of life into a “Third Life”—the “First Life” being the biological life and the “Second Life” the life in the symbolic dimension—that expands Nature. This process is consistent with the progressive externalisation outside the body of human functions and activities, in the beginning of body parts, then of knowledge and memory, then of activities and labor, and finally of some narrow reasoning and autonomous action. In the future, increasingly human activities will be externalised, evolving into Third Life.
