Description and basic ideas of Lyotard and the Inhuman. Part Two

In resisting the inhuman, presents the figure of Lyotard. The inhumanity (1988) is a collection of essays, barely connected to each other, which describes two types of inhumanity. The first is advanced capitalism with its expansive appetite and endless innovation. The second is the artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial life (VA), with its colonial imperative, an imperative that capitalism does its best to expedite.

Capitalism does not consider the interests of the individual is subordinate to the system in the name of progress. Capitalism for the efficiency and effectiveness of the system: the aim is to save time. The desarrollose has become an end in itself for capitalism, and after having proper science, is shaping up to increase efficiency, resulting in higher profits and greater power. The development will never be satisfied. If you do not control it will lead us into a culture based on principles inhuman. Lyotard calls the resistance to this culture. The human model underlying this resistance movement is based on reflection and response to events as they occur rather than the efficiency of production. This last aspect criticized by Lyotard in his book "Postmodern Condition": "Technology is a game that relates to efficiency. A rally is" good "when it better and / or expends less energy than another." Under such a regime of morality disappears. Lyotard's sympathies always fall on what the system can not harmonize, synonymous with the concept of "difference". The aspect that tries to eradicate the inhuman human nature is the difference.

No difference, according to Lyotard, lohumano lost.

Can you still be thinking without a body? The body, which is characteristic of humanity, is colonized by the inhuman in the form of artificial intelligence. The trial of inhumanity is presented as a dialogue between him and Ella-Lyotard-technology. He, Lyotard suggests that the death of the sun is the only serious issue facing humanity and suggests that we must reduce everything to resolve a problem: "How do thought possible without a body?". According to Lyotard, technocracy, under pressure from development, is concerned with improving the operational efficiency of technological systems to the point where the human becomes irrelevant to the process. Development wants to expand indefinitely and anything that restricts the internal dynamics is recorded as a problem to be overcome by higher levels of operational efficiency. Once past the human, the only thing left to the expansion of development is the death of the sun. The tecnocraciatrabaja to transcend it.

The development is concerned with the thought because it guarantees their survival. Lyotard believes that thought can be preserved but must be designed from the human mind and not from a computer thinking. To be worthy of preservation, thought must be something more than simple logical reasoning. Must bring the creative element that characterizes humanity. Describes a process thought as amorphous and indeterminate similar to how clouds form. The movement has a quality of thinking outside the technological functioning: reiteratividad that characterizes the technology. The human mind resists with the precision and the confinement of the computer thinking.

All attempts, considering computers as alternative ways of living to another way of life, fail when they do not meet the requirements set for such a condition Lyotard. Of "thinking machines" can not be said to think of any human sense of the term. The computers lack the unpredictability of human thought, similar to the cloud. They are too efficient and too oriented toward running. Computers are addressed and that no element of creativity that defies the rules inherent in the human. Without this creativity can not exist or be "thinking".

Appeared on the scene, "She" - the technology, identifying another problem for any program that tries to replace people with machines thinking: the gender issue. The human body is genderless. Sexual difference is something we have been implicit. Technoscience suspect this difference because it leads to the unpredictable world of desire. The desire complicates the task of technoscience. "She" - the technology, he insists that the desire has to be introduced into the thinking machines. For artificial intelligence - AI-bearing artificial life-VA-should include not only the suffering and gender but also the commitment to the difference. Technoscience is incapacitated by nature to take this commitment. It aspires to total control that extends to the future and that means removing not only time but also the difference of time. Lyotard fears that technology is leading to this process. The message is clear: You can not separate thought from the body. If you do, be done by mimicking the experience of being "inside" of a body.

Maria Dolores Fuentes

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