Lydia Liu

Two short passages from The Freudian Robot:

Lacan does not dismiss the belief in chance, number and randomness as superstition but sees it as the path toward the unconscious. Following this insight, we might draw some conclusions about the political unconscious of an electoral democracy based on number games and see it as the latest divinational technology of the ruling class in modern guise.

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This neo-Freudian view leads to his dismissal of rationality as “a kind of fantasy.” Minsky show more argues that “our thinking is never entirely based on purely logical reasoning” and predicts that “most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders. show less