CYBERNETICS
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SOCIAL LINK

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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SOCIAL LINK

To comprehend how Artificial Intelligence (Cyphernetics) intervenes in our life & environment, PLAN begins with the psychological relation (known as split - detailed explanation with PaloAlto model ) :

pic.01: A primal intersected split typifies the human psychological communication

From the founding shize (pic above) philosophy has assumed (pic below) that an indefinite repetition of the crossing (expl : you for me for you for me for you for... alias : I think that you think that I think that you think that... - See Lacan's "The Purloined Letter" below) refracts, distracts and dissipates the split into a collective cleavage, a thread of unnamed, a groove toward an Archetype, Paradigm or Metonyme, aiming towards an Absolute, Ideal (Philosophers also described it as totalization of totalizations, Politicians as Ideology, Theologians as Spirituality).

pic.02: Unlimited tension towards Absolute; described in
Lacan's Parenthesis of the Parenthesis - 1966 : me for (you for (me for (you for (me for (you for (me for you))))))
social argument for Totalitarism according to J.P.Sartre.
In the sixties Sartre's criticism was advocated by R.D.Laing's Anti-Psychiatry
 (see W.Theaux: 'For a Practical Intelligence of Marxism,').

According to Freud's theory, this is a stage where the definition of a feminine sexuality is challenged, for this Ideal/Absolute initially represents the feminine (the Big Body of the Mother's archetype) before the God of a Patriarchy. When nationalism stops supporting crowd's idealization all cultures would then collapse except for the intervention of a supplementary logic.

Course of Logic (circuit of the Letter) on Libido ring or E.A.Poe argument according to J.Lacan ATTENTION, for a good understanding of this passage, get familiar with the analytic diagrams presented as the Optical Model - dynamic logic and the 4 Discourses a) Simple Logic of the Letter When he read A.E.Poe's The Purloined Letter, Lacan picked up the analysis of a 'genius child' that Poe presents as his hero's model. In his game, the child asks his partner for a series of times, to guess if the number of objects he conceals in his hand are in odd or even number (or black or white?, or in which hand? etc... everyone know this early game in one's life; it is memorable and transmitted along generations as for a myth of subjective cognition). The psychology of this mythic game can be formulated as a dynamic logic... The formula of this dynamic logic : This formulation has been identified as a model for Psychoanalysis , by Lacan who eventually used it for indicating how Artificial Intelligence could be effective in anticipating the human desire. Such demonstration begins with a psychological modelization which represents how the human mind traces his reflexive loop. Then this 'Mirror Stage' (paranoiac phase and/or foundation of the human person) must be re-paired in a shortcut (which is called Knowledge [magenta pic.03 below] in comparison with Thinking [turquoise loop pic.03 below]). An animated picture presents this loop and its shortcut (which evolves with the Lacanian transference into the Internal-Eight  ) :   Oedipian Complex (protocybernetics)   detailed explanation with Crowd Model   goto all pics detailed explanation with Optical Model     pic.03: Narcissism which is theorized as Mirror Stage and re-pair which is identified a (human) Knowledge   In this trine situation (triple You, AKA Oedipian Complex), the breaking on the Ideal and the resulting shortcut [magenta] are due to the status of the secondary 'you' which cannot find an authentic third party to think of; this solution builds up as follow : The only realistic available third reference being a Superego when a repeated loop form a spiral of Absolute Indefinity [or unlimited tension above], a silent frustration is permanently driven for a real illusion. If this is not leading a production  , the secondary 'you' reflex upon itself, thus splitting up into poles from which a sexual distinction can be defined. Such libidinal solution is deciphered by the complete analysis of the function of the Letter - i.e., as some Lacanian would say, the complete Undressing of THE Woman  . b) Logic of the Letter with Artificial Intelligence Yet, beyond the Superego regime and/or the Oedipus Complex, there may be situations where, instead of a shortcut, the loop would be repeated in a metaphoric way rather than a metonymic spiral. This is the case when a Cybernetic apparatus provides the secondary 'you' with a third alternative, which gives it matter to think/see  . Such refraction cascades from that point in a complete round of four loops locations, summarized in the Lacanian linguistic formula  of The Four Discourses.:   Industrial Civilization   detailed explanation with Time Conception   goto all pics detailed explanation with Four Discourses      pic.04: Thinking as the alienated Oedipian does Cybernetics brings a power two to the imaginary relationship of dualism   The former shortcut has develop into three loops - and in this shift - from a still Narcissistic regime up to the mechanic objectivity of Intelligence - the analysis discovers  the emergence of a fourth term as Nature. This overproduction do not fail to question. First, one must clarify the doubt that a machine (cybernetics) should perform (think) equally if not better than its creator : Since one usually takes so little lesson from the ennobling fact that we daily mount buildings that are much higher that our individual bodies, one have to make our mind with the humbling way as Lacan wrote following the E.A Poe report : If the Unconscious exists - as Freud described it - it is not impossible to think that a modern computer - extracting the phrase which drives an unaware subject - wins the game [of the 'genius child' re: above]. This may be pure paradox, yet it shows that it is not for the lack of a quality which would qualify human consciousness, that one would refuse to identify thinking in these powerful machines, but simply because they would no think more than the casual human, who is in any case, driven by the Significand Secondly, the identification of the said Nature must be explicited, after Lacan who could not reach that point himself : By common sense, the key for this explanation should be found where Lacan declined to go. His biography shows that he stumbled against the formula of Time that his dynamic logic was beginning to uncover, and suffered a recoil upon the Collective Logic he abandoned with R.Cailloix. A look back on our 20th century makes easy understanding what may have stop Lacan as others there. For the genuine Cybernetics itself was halted likewise after its founder Weiner. Adaptation of machines to their environment, so that they would adapt also to their own effect in that same environment, requires a new logic, beyond the Primary Cybernetics that digitization, power and speed allow. Namely, a logic of sameness  had to be defined. After Weiner and Lacan included, this logic has been awaiting. During its latency phase, only science fiction essays as Azimov's Robots showed that the quest was still vivace; and victory was at hand when Lacan identified the logic of the Significand (sameness between the two subjects of the "I think therefore I am")  - but Human need perception for his observation; computers at this period of time were still remarkable with their sole power & speed quality. Concrete plurality was not coming to the fore yet for theorizing further Intelligence mechanism. Only nowadays are we meeting in fact that Artificial Intelligence reckon with a network logic, a plural mass which imposes millions voices inseparable from its definition. Once we realize that Artificial Intelligence is a process that builds up on a population - its connection appears with Nature, 'environing' the living species. c) Formulation of Social Link With the four terms - ' I, ' 'You,' 'Cybernetics' and 'Nature' - there is a foundation for a Practice of Ecology.  What must there be determined is where and how identifying the Social Link in this industrial compound : The Freudian discovery of this point of mass that I call 'me' under analysis  , this 'ego' (pic.04 above) sometimes mixed up with the ' I ' (pic.03 above) of the subjective logic  is the memory factor  that sustains these four terms in the new industry  . Providing anchors for the collective network of Social Links  , the Freudian ego(s) either animates the modern crowd or builds up the above 'shortcut', also known as 'transference'  before its consumption with Artificial Intelligence  . This assertion with its many html links to comprehensive schemas depicts the general situation of the Social Link  , whose bifid structure is detailed below: Note (1) :  the thread would be <I think that you think of me thinking of you for the machine sees that you see the machine seeing you etc...> (continuing and resulting in four loops) instead of <I think that you think of me thinking of you so that... etc...> [back to text]

When digitization (Cybernetics) affects the pace of Idealization (e.g. Totalization), the unlimited run towards idealization is reflected (feed-back, clone, duplicate) upon itself. Instead of the Lacanian Absolute Other that coerces human fate into idiocy (sic), an objective alternative between a subject and a machine builds a relationship to an Alter-Ego in a Social Link where the primal split is integrated (instead of distracted and dissipated - re: above).

This Bifida Social Link due to Cybernetics effects can be compared with the combination of refraction and reflection that Lacan's Optical Model allows, (thus providing topological laws and bringing Sociology up to Science competence - See Lacan's theorization from "The Purloined Letter" see also Freud's "The Future of an Illusion")

Social Ethics with Virtual(s) Reality/Entities as Plato's Cave  turned into a lake
goto all pics goto main pics		goto archeo psycho goto neo psycho
In this Social Application of the Optical Model, the distribution of the Social Link is shown as the refraction of an image in the water plan. It is a model for the Logic of Sameness (introducing the Plural instead of the Hierarchical) which constitutes an Ethics in regard to digitization of Reality (Genetics, Brainetics, drugs, Cybernetics, artificial intelligence)

This is leading to a practical conclusion :

In ritualizing the placement of the known entities (S1, S2, Ideal) in their optical places (Me, You, Me for.., You for..) in the computer age, PLuralANalysis represents Artificial Intelligence (Cybernetics) unfolding an ideological social order (Ideal logic) into the cleaved logic of its Social Link. PLAN therefore substrates a consciousness of the industrial (collective) action.

This is meeting civilization when it produces robots (Artificial Intelligence) with an upgrade of the Narcissic Link (Transference) shifting Motherhood into an Ecosystem..

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