%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:3747823 %A Florid, I. Luciano %C Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, United Kingdoml.floridi@herts.ac.uk %D 2008 %I Blackwell Publishing %J Metaphilosophy %K agents, ai, inforgs, information, informational, infosphere, turing %N 4-5 %P 651--655 %R 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2008.00573.x %T ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE'S NEW FRONTIER: ARTIFICIAL COMPANIONS AND THE FOURTH REVOLUTION %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.2008.00573.x %V 39 %X Abstract: In this article I argue that the best way to understand the information turn is in terms of a fourth revolution in the long process of reassessing humanity's fundamental nature and role in the universe. We are not immobile, at the centre of the universe (Copernicus); we are not unnaturally distinct and different from the rest of the animal world (Darwin); and we are far from being entirely transparent to ourselves (Freud). We are now slowly accepting the idea that we might be informational organisms among many agents (Turing), inforgs not so dramatically different from clever, engineered artefacts, but sharing with them a global environment that is ultimately made of information, the infosphere.

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