Proprietà emergenti Emergent Properties: dimensioni qualitative del Sociale e sfide epistemologiche dell’Intelligenza Artificiale

“The anthropological transformation that has been taking place for some time, in addition to the urgency of a 'new epistemology' and the limited effectiveness of theoretical-interpretive apparatuses, opens up uncertain and indefinable scenarios, bringing out what is unobservable and making our limitations even more evident. 

Thus, the obsolescence of theories, epistemologies, paradigms, and the radical inadequacy of the system of thought emerge. 

Non by chance, the Mechanism-Society, built on technocracy and technoscience, intends to eliminate error and unpredictability from systems, ecosystems, life, believing it can predict and even pre-determine any process. 

A civilisation of this kind, increasingly programmed and automated in every aspect, innervated with connections and simulation processes, as well as delegating everything to technology and specialisms, cannot but have as its main objective the marginalisation of the Human - the bearer of error and unpredictability - and the space, social and cultural, of responsibility. 

Society-Mechanism is rooted in illusory and self-defeating certainties, which do not consider the strategic relevance of error and unpredictability, and which continue to be supported by the exclusive recourse to those technical knowledge and skills that appear most capable of confirming and reinforcing the paradigm of efficiency and rationality. 

The extraordinary scientific discoveries and technological innovations of the last few decades have not only given us the possibility of ever better control over the mechanisms of our biological evolution, but have also brought us into a time of maximum unpredictability, obsolescence and uncertainty. 

Dimensions, by now, that are also existential. 

This time, the paradigm shift is so profound and irreversible that it forces us to rethink/redefine everything, even the very concept of science; a Science that can only open itself to the study and understanding of the unobservable and the indeterminate”. 

Book Index 

Questions of method and approach. The civilisation of Artificial (?) Intelligence and the urgency of a socio-systemic relational approach

The exit from Post-modernity and the epistemological and educational challenges of a 'new Nature'

Emergences and obsolescences of the Society-Mechanism

The impact of the digital. Autonomy vs. automation. Technocracy or democracy?

Error and unpredictability in the Society of automation and intelligent machines (?)

For a 'new look' at the Social. Towards a culture of error and unpredictability

Bibliographical references

The book was published in the scientific series "LS, Theory Method Epistemology" by the academic-scientific publisher FrancoAngeli and is currently being translated into English and other languages.

[The scientific monograph is currently being translated into English and has already received submissions from authoritative international scientific publishers]

Piero Dominici (PhD), sociologist and philosopher, is an associate professor at the University of Perugia. Among his numerous international awards and positions, he is a UNESCO IPL Expert and a UN Invited Expert and Speaker. An expert of the JRC Group - European Commission, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science, of IETI, and of the Complex Systems Society, he is the Scientific Director of CHAOS (2011). He has taught and lectured at many international universities and participates in projects of international relevance. He is a referee for prestigious scientific journals worldwide and has been studying complex systems, the epistemology of social sciences, and education for unpredictability for almost thirty years. He is the author of books and numerous scientific articles.