The Contemporary Kaleidoscope of Intellectualism

Kaleidoscope - a toy consisting of a tube that you look through with loose pieces of colored glass and mirrors at the end. When the tube is turned, the pieces of glass move and form different patterns

( Oxford Advanced American Dictionary )

A Kaleidoscope, according to the definition is a Toy and I'll take it as an image to keep in mind for the corrent article to be used for the intellectual patterns of the shifting "Doors of Perceptions" (Aldous Huxley , 1954) of our psyche/mind. My interest is to create an intellectual Toy out of the mind with its colourful dicipline of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Technology and Literature -- So we could play with it for our intellectual (post-modern) "contemporariness".

Consciousness (not the unconscious) according to Freud is system for perception of psychic qualities which is our Toy. In order to see the patterns, we need to turn the tube. The use of psilocybin (and other psychedelics; see Alexander Shulgin 1991) or just nocturnal dreaming can definitally turn the tube of the Kaleidoscope Toy we call psyche. The colorful patterns of our Unconscious processes emerge in the most vivid forms, moving-pictures cinematology (cinematography) of our mind.

Of course Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis can be juxtraposed (cf. Freud vs. Husserl) but I will just say that our consciousness / mental / psychical reality is Containing a veriety of "objects" at different complexity with different development stages and with different form and content. This psychical "objects" are heterogeneous and could be multiple: a vertex (point of view), thought, association, picture, moving picture, ideogram, ideograph, sensor data, a piece of music, and other psychological derivatives.

Lyotard (1984) already had conceptualized Postmodernity in his "The Postmodern Condition" purposing the "meta-narrative" concept, but my purpose is only to dance on the spectral colors of the Depressive Position (Klein) between different shifting vertices of colorful intellectualization of Contemporariness which Agamben (2006) describes as:

a singular relationship with one’s own time, which adheres to it and, at the same time, keeps a distance from it. More precisely, it is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disjunction and an anachronism

Trying to comply with this Agambenian definition of Contemporariness, to be both in disjunction and anachronistic in relation to our time by enjoying old-fashioned novels like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (P.K.D 1968) or letting Chat-GPT give us it's interpretation of Medievalism; François Rabelais , Giovanni Boccaccio or Miguel de Cervantes; This anachronism should makes us lough out loud.

The artificial in AI is robotic and monotonous and attempts are and will be made to make it more natural - like the attempts to make Text-To-Speach more fluent(or with accent?), so we'll feel like you we're communicating with a human being (think of the difference between listening to Audible's narrator vs. the mechanic "read aloud" of VitalSource).

Moreover, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) algorithms (e.g 'Hugging Face') would be trained against more high quality data-sets/texts in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis or Literature (Paid content, PDFs, Texts that are not available on search engines) trying to create more profession-oreinted AI Chat-bots (Psychoanalyst, Philosopher, Poet) that doesn't misguide you that 'The Interpretation of Dreams' (Freud, 1899) was written by Lacan. However, They'll not be able to enjoy the Psychological Kaleidoscopic nor intellectualism, nor dream nor trip and therefor the Psychological-Kaleidoscope for now at least, will remain for us human (Their neuronal networks will forever remain virtual while ours biological).

I hope I briefly showed to your satisfaction the colorful intellectual patterns of philosophical-psychoanalytical-technological-literary critic/analysis of the Kaleidoscopic Toy that our Psyche/Mind is able to entertain itself in our contemporary world.