Mental-Health and
A.I. : A Paradigm of Human Mechanisation
- Aditya
Nayak
Abstract
This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the
relationship between technological apparatus and our mental lifeworld.
Technological network apparatus, particularly algorithmic networks are
absorbing large domains of our life into themselves. In the process, our sense
of self-identity has become fragile. We keep feeling disoriented by the overload
of technological acceleration in our life in form of messages, notifications,
and new methods of algorithmic monitoring of our life. Our sensory perception
of reality has been hegemonised by intelligent machines. In response, the
mental-health discourse identifies new mental-illnesses and their treatment
procedures. However, the mental-health discourse functions on certain
underlying philosophical assumptions which limit its ability to understand the
contemporary real mental-problems faced by human beings. It gets trapped in its
own logic. While claiming to bring the patient back into normality, it only
traps humans further in the processes of human mechanisation. This paper
highlights some of these issues and introspects new ways of understanding the
current problem by going beyond the mental-health discourse.
Keywords: 1)
Mental-Health, 2) Artificial Intelligence, 3) Tertiary Memory, 4) Acceleration,
5) Psychotherapy, 6) Self-identity, 7) Algorithmic Governmentality, 8)
Proletarianisation
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. What
is the Mental-Health Discourse?
3. Mental
Lifeworld in Transition
4. Response
of Mental-Health Discourse and Possibilities Beyond
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