ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF REALITY: ONTOLOGICAL STATUS, EPISTEMOLOGICAL FUNCTION, AND LIMITS OF COGNITIVE APPLICABILITY

The article conceptualizes artificial intelligence from the standpoint of the Philosophy of Reality. AI in the broad sense is defined as the intertransition of consciousness and a system of physical processes; AI in the narrow sense as a physical system within which an analogue of a part of consciousness is created, transformed in accordance with the directives of consciousness, and returned to consciousness in a modified form, where it is experienced as an act of cognition. On this basis, the article analyzes the ontological status of AI, its place in the structure of cognition, its difference from natural thinking, and its epistemological possibilities and limits. It is argued that AI is not an autonomous subject of cognition, but rather an externally organized mechanism for the transformation of analogues of consciousness incorporated into the circuit of intertransition between the objective and the subjective. Keywords: artificial intelligence, Philosophy of Reality, consciousness, cognition, objective, subjective, truth, analogue of consciousness, reintegration, intersubjective verification.