Transumanismo e singularidade tecnológica: uma revisão de literatura a partir da psicanálise lacaniana

Abstract

The advancement of computational science and the development of new technologies of artificial intelligence has involved the form of organization of culture by leaps and bounds. As the subject undergoes mechanization - transhumanism - there is a radical attempt to humanize machines, that is, the technological singularity. This course completion work was carried out to carry out a literature review, using scientific articles and books, on Transhumanism and Technological Singularity from Lacanian psychoanalysis. Those approved of transhumanism, and scholars of technological singularity, guided by new technological advances, seem to be always waiting for the moment when they will be free and transcend the human condition. On the one hand, scientific authoritarianism which, equating brain functioning with the subject's totality, strives to mimic it; on the other hand, the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis that sees the subject as the being of language. This difference highlights a broad debate, between neurosciences and psychoanalysis, which is presented as necessary for the current social, political and economic context. Taking into account the subject of language, highlighted as inherent to Lacanian psychoanalysis, it was possible to broaden the debate about the human constitution and the new forms of satisfaction and enjoyment that arise with technological innovations.