AI as Machine of Birth:Birth,Maternal Body and Trauma
Birth and death are both fundamental philosophical issues related to human finitude,but in the history of Western philosophy,the former has always been ignored.In two recent monographs,O'Byrne and Irigaray have respectively conducted in-depth thinking on natality from different perspectives,thus presenting three different clues.The first is the groundlessness explained in Heidegger's Being and Time,the second is the positive response of the philosophy of life to this,and the third is Irigaray's interval ontology derived from the ancient Greek philosophy.The idea that birth is an absolutely accidental event,a creative becoming,and an interval between maternal bodies is further reflected in the recent increasingly hot researches on artificial life.Although artificial life reinterprets and develops the premise of"life as the foundation",it also faces the dangerous future of prefabricated life.Reactivating the inner experience of birth trauma may be a possible way to awaken subjectivity.
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