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The study addressed in this 'book' puts forward a project that is
twofold. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual basis within which it
would be possible for the construction of a 'neosentient' system, a
machine endowed with the capacity to perceive or feel things in the
world, as if manifesting a proto-form of (artificial)
consciousness. Secondly, it hypothesizes about the rising of
benevolence through the interaction/intra-action, between
'neosentient' machines and their environment, which include us,
human beings, as inhabitants. The manuscript tackles its task in a
very particular manner as it interrelates a constellation of ideas
in order to address key research agendas on the fields of language,
aesthetics, philosophy, biology, physics, science, technology, mind
and consciousness to name some. The goal of the book is not to
define the structure within which such an engine could be built, it
does not bring into light the blueprint of such an, but it nails
down key concepts from a broad range of topics, mapping a path for
future research, reinforcing this way the sense of feasibility of
its enterprise. In doing so, the book illuminates trajectories,
ramifications or even non-directly correlated ideas that would pass
unnoticed to the reader's mind, were not by the authors generously
bringing into play sets of key scholars, theories, discoveries and
even speculative ideas.
Computer-based environmental meaning is potentially examined and
explored through the authorship, inter-authorship, and operative
experiential examination of a diverse set of media- elements and
media-processes, within an operative, generative computational
environment. The media that becomes evocative within this
techo-poetic virtual environment includes digital video, digital
still images, 3D digital objects, 3D animations, digital spoken and
written text, digital music/noise - sound objects, and digital
texture maps - both still and moving. Each media-element could be
said to convey its own field of meaning. Varying combinations of
these fields of meaning are experienced through fleeting
electronic/environmental relations. The mind-set of the participant
represents another active field, and becomes dynamically involved
in the construction of meaning. It is through the combination and
recombination of these evocative digital fields of meaning, as
experienced by an engaged participant, that a new form of poetics
can emerge - Recombinant Poetics.
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