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Archaeology of Breath: Traditional Somatic Knowledge in the Age of AI | 息の考古学: AI時代における伝統的身体知
This treatise aims to carve out a legitimate place for the traditional somatic knowledge that has long been marginalized within modern Western philosophy. Modern humans have developed a division between body and thought. As we enter the AI era and humanity loses its advantage in logical thinking, the abandonment of somatic knowledge is a dangerous sign for the existence of the species. In order to depict the division between body and thought, this treatise traces back to the era when the concepts of medical respiration and theological soul overlapped philosophically, thereby delineating a blank space in modern philosophy. First, the division between breath and soul is not a historical necessity, but was formed posteriory by a specific era and a specific academic division of labor. Second, by reframing this division not as a "boundary line" but as a concept the treatise will call Awai, deliberately left untranslated, the problem of demarcation (where the body ends and thought begins) can be resolved. Third, the study of somatic knowledge is a strategy for securing the ontological uniqueness of humanity in the AI era. Fourth, the deepening of this division is positioned as a single, long-term historical arc beginning with Renaissance Humanism (the project of making the world computable, extending from perspective to AI), and the turning point at which this arc currently stands is examined. Fifth, the way of living in which one abandons this somatic knowledge, leaving only respiration and letting go of the soul, is also a freedom open to humans, and the description of this freedom is the very reason why the study of somatic knowledge should be started. Although this treatise borrows the format of academic argumentation, its purpose is not to pass peer review. It was written based on the ideas of the author, who is a painter, using AI as an auxiliary tool. Although the philosophical conception and the core of the argument belong to the author, interdisciplinary errors or insufficiencies are disclaimed, and translation by experts is requested. This is a preliminary essay intended to visualize a philosophical blank space that has been left unattended for a long time and to serve as the starting point for an ideological movement. | 本論は、近代西洋哲学において長らく周縁化されてきたあらゆる伝統的身体知の正当な居場所を切り開くことを目的とする。AI時代を迎え、人類が論理的思考力の優位性を失うに際して、身体知の置き去りは種の存在として危険な兆候であろう。本論では、身体と思考の分断を描くため、医学的な呼吸と神学的な魂の概念が哲学的に重なり合っていた時代まで遡り、近代哲学における空白地帯を描く。 第一に、息と魂の分断は歴史の必然ではなく、特定の時代・特定の学問的分業によって後天的に形成されたものであること。第二に、この分断を「境界線」としてではなく「あわい」として捉え直すことで、線引きの問題(どこからどこまでが身体で、どこからが思考か)を解消できること。第三に、身体知の研究が、AI時代において人類の存在論的な固有性を確保するための戦略であること。第四に、この分断の深化を、ルネサンス人文主義に始まる一つの長期的な歴史的弧(遠近法からAIに至る、世界の計算可能化のプロジェクト)として位置づけ、その弧が現在どのような分岐点にあるかを検討すること。第五に、身体知を放棄し、呼吸のみを残して魂を手放すという生き方もまた人間に開かれた自由であり、この自由の記述こそが、身体知の研究を始めるべき理由そのものであること。 本論は、学術的な論証の形式を借りてはいるが、査読を通過することを目的としていない。画家である著者のアイデアを基に、AIを補助ツールとして用いて記述した。哲学的構想と主張の核心は著者によるが、学際的な誤りや不十分な点は免責事項とし、専門家による翻訳を願う。これは、長い間放置されてきた哲学的な空白地帯を可視化し、一つの思想運動の出発点とするための試論である。
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