Algunas observaciones sobre narcisismo humano e inteligencia artificial

Resumo

In 1917 Freud pointed out the fact that human narcissism had suffered three great blows: the cosmological one, when Copernicus discovered the cynetic dependency of the Earth from the Sun; the biological one, when Darwin showed the "homo" species as one among others and, finally, the psychoanalytic blow: the one the subconscious delivers on a conscience that sees itself as the master of the human back room. For some time now a debate has been going on Artificial Intelligence, and more concretely on a very successful development of it --knowledge-based systems. Do they also constitute a blow to human narcissism as they bring down to earth a faculty traditionally considered as species-specific, namely that of reasoning? Exaggerated statements from different spheres of the cognitive sciences (be it Philosophy or knowledge-engineering) have been produced on this matter. We propound here a theoretical framework for debating these matters with some criteria we consider to be more rational than the ones in use until now.