The Illusion of the Algorithmic Logos: An Ontological and Epistemological Disquisition on Artificial Intelligence in the Post-2020 Era
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The Emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) during the 2020-2025 quinquennium has catalyzed a philosophical crisis that demands a reevaluation of the fundamental concepts of cognition, knowledge, and agency.This article approaches AI from a doctoral-level ontological and epistemological perspective, arguing that contemporary AI operates under an illusion of the algorithmic Logos.Ontologically, it distinguishes the probabilistic computation of AI from human intentionality and consciousness, situating the machine as a Heideggerian tool (Zuhandenheit) devoid of Dasein.Epistemologically, it examines how AI reconfigures the notion of truth by grounding knowledge in statistical patterns rather than semantic correspondence, thus challenging authorship and the validity of knowledge itself.Finally, it proposes that global AI governance must transcend the mere ethics of application to establish a political metaphysics that safeguards the primacy of human dignity and phronesis within the knowledge cycle.
Author: Gabriel Alfonzo Peraza Mora
Institution: Centro Nacional de Tecnología Química
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W7127051192