Relational Perceptual Availability: Self-Location Through Address in Human-AI Interaction
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Perceptual Availability concerns which features and relations are accessible to a person's recognition and inquiry. This paper examines a relational development within that availability: a particular becomes an addressee, and the person becomes more aware of their own orientation toward it. Self-Location Through Address names this proposed phenomenological mechanism. In human-AI interaction, initiating an address and receiving a system's reply are distinct events that may make different positions available to the participant. The framework distinguishes experienced encounter, supported participation, and system role tracking, and it profiles particularity, positioning, inspectability, and corrigibility. It connects these distinctions to prior work on encounter, social interaction, and responses to computers. It sets out what to notice when a person initiates address before any reply, and when a reply addresses them and does or does not use their correction. The contribution is a conceptual specification with explicit evidential limits.
Author: Cary, Alexandra
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225448980