FROM THE “METAPHORIZING MAN” TO THE ARTIFICIAL “MAN” AND “BACK”
FROM THE “METAPHORIZING MAN” TO THE ARTIFICIAL “MAN” AND “BACK”

Summary/Abstract: Throughout his history, man has proven himself to be a creative creature. The paper contrasts man and IA, discussing in this respect the meaning of the Turing Test and the value of reference for the human being, in fact consecrated by the Turing Test. In Lucian Blaga’s philosophical system, we find a beautiful plea for the uniqueness (singularity) of man, defined as a cultural mutation in the universe. This beautiful perspective brought to philosophy by Lucian Blaga is by no means something exotic (in a negative sense): we find resonances of this perspective in the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, Richard Rorty, Basarab Nicolescu and Mihai Drăgănescu. As man is the measure of all things in the universe in which he lives, a measure of creative man is that he provides his own living environment, as an interface for the natural environment or even as a substitute for the natural environment in various concrete circumstances and in some interpretive perspectives. Another measure of human creativity, but without reducing everything to these two aspects selected for discussion, will be the creation of artificial man, the AI. However, cumulating our interpretation of the Turing Test and of Lucian Blaga’s vision upon the singularity of man, either this achievement will be called “human” (an intelligence or a “mind”), or it will be able to be recognized as an instance of authentic thinking being when it will manifest at least a relative detachment from the program, through metaphorical capacities derived from the algorithmic programming, proving its “learning” dimension or, unexpectedly (spontaneously), in relation to its programming.

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