The Genie in the Lamp or Simondonian Individuation in the Light of Large Language Models iss. 2025‑09‑07

In this article, much as Socrates questioned Gorgias, I question ChatGPT so that, in its own words, two things may come to light: -first, the striking proximity between a large language model (LLM) and Simondon’s preindividual; -and second, the unthinkable potential for meaning in an LLM—strictly incommensurable with the objectified meaning humans ascribe to the world.