Human Being and Algorithms

Abstract

The use of algorithms –codified set of rules to achieve a purpose- has always been characteristic of human being, but it does not mean that human beings have an algorithmic nature, as if their psychophysical, relational and practical life followed a set of guidelines and computable sequences that might be technologically optimized, which in turn would legitimize the society of control and the productivity. Quite the contrary, I support an anthropological model that emphasizes on the complexity of a non-programmed existence, on the multidimensional and interweaved dimension of life, on the creative and non-reducible spheres of the human experience…being these elements the core of freedom.