Derivative Entanglement and Artificial Intelligence: Re-reading Alva Noë’s on Art, Perception, and Human Experience
摘要
Alva Noë’s book The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are offers a profound framework for understanding human experience as inseparable from perception, culture, and reflective practice. This article presents a concise articulation of Noë’s central thesis, integrating critical insights from contemporary reviews, arguing that art and philosophy are essential, world-shaping tools for human self-formation rather than elite luxuries. It critically extends this framework to artificial intelligence (AI), introducing an original philosophical tension: while Noë’s entanglement thesis convincingly delineates the ontological gap between human embodied, culturally embedded experience and AI (lacking lived history and sensorimotor self-formation), emerging hybrid practices of human-AI co-creation in art and philosophy invite us to interrogate whether partial, derivative forms of entanglement can emerge in socio-technical systems—without erasing the irreducible distinction between lived human being and computational processing. By examining AI’s limitations from the standpoint of sensorimotor dependency, contextual fragility (Clever Hans effect, adversarial attacks), and its inability to engage in genuine reflective reorganization, the article argues that AI operates on statistical correlations between phenomena, not on comprehension or meaning-making. The conclusion advocates for ethical AI design that positions AI as an augmentative tool in human-centered collaboration, aligning with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) by promoting inclusive, ethical technological progress.