The Intelligence of the Hands

Attributing artificiality solely to technological intelligences certainly means distinguishing their capabilities from those of the human mind, whose biological origin, however, runs the risk of becoming synonymous with an immutable nature. Adopting a palaeontological perspective, the contribution, conversely, seeks to draw attention to the close evolutionary link between our brains and the practices of the living body. Such a reflection is intended to recall not only the constructed nature of our intelligences, but also to show how, in removing the plasticity of the body, Cartesian Modernity was instead inspired by a machinic model of the brain that rendered the mind an immaterial and static entity. Therefore, trying to probe the presence of this approach between the lines of some conceptions of A.I. is a necessary premise both to read human intelligere in terms of a specific articulation of the artificial and to reposition its relationship with other machinic intelligences in the more horizontal perspective of a respectful heterogeneity.