RUMO AOS HOMOBOTS: algoritmos, diminuição da complexidade e o rebaixamento da consciência humana.

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Towards Homobots:
Algorithms, Diminishing Complexity, and the Downgrading of Human Consciousness.
Abstract: This doctoral thesis investigates the impact of algorithms on the complexity of human consciousness. It is observed that algorithms have increasingly influenced our lives, imposing behavioral automatisms that limit our freedom of choice. The central hypothesis is that algorithms are diminishing the complexity of human experience, as proposed by Edgar Morin's concept of complex thinking. To substantiate this hypothesis, a bibliographic research was conducted, engaging authors from the fields of technology, (human) communication, and
cognitive sciences. The thesis is structured with a prologue, chapters 1, 2, 3, and conclusion.
The prologue contextualizes the scenario in which the studied phenomenon develops, presenting the issue of the domestication of the body and human consciousness in the 20th
century, resulting from electrification and long-distance communication technologies, which
have reduced the capacity for symbolization of the world and created the "mediosphere". In
chapter 1, the object of study, algorithms, is explored, encompassing their functioning and
impact on people's lives. Chapter 2 delves into the question of human consciousness, aiming
for a multidisciplinary approach with authors from the fields of (human) communication,
technology, and cognitive science. In chapter 3, a connection is established between
algorithms and the understanding of consciousness, reclaiming the myth of Odysseus as a
form of resilience in the face of algorithmic influence. Finally, in the conclusion, the dramatic
situation in which we find ourselves being subjected to algorithms is presented, and a warning
is issued regarding the importance of self-knowledge to avoid becoming mere homobots.
This research contributes to future studies on algorithms as modifiers of consciousness and
highlights the consequences of this process. It is concluded that consciousness has been
erased by allowing machines and algorithms to narrate our stories.