SOPHIOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Annotation

The article analyzes the philosophical overlap of platonic motives in the philosophical and theological concept of sophiology and the artificial intelligence project. In Russian philosophical thought, the topic of sophiology was initiated by V. S. Solovyov’s concept of all-encompassing unity (vseyedinstvo). Many scientists devoted a lot of effort to developing this concept (Priest. Pavel Florensky, priest. Sergiy Bulgakov, L. P. Karsavin, and others). Sophiology, which has roots in Plato’s and Gnostic’s understanding of creation, has been repeatedly criticized in Russian religious and philosophical thought. Among the critics of this concept were both philosophers and theologians (E. N. Trubetskoy, Archim. Serafim Sakharov and others). The decisive events in the discussion of sophiology were the condemnations of this teaching formulated in the acts of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1935. V. N. Lossky formulated a key point of disagreement in the understanding of creation in Orthodoxy and in sophiology. Orthodox theology requires an apophatic approach to the themes of creation, while the Gnostic tradition, dating back to Plato, takes a philosophical approach to these issues, and inevitably becomes entangled in speculative constructions. The understanding of thinking in the concept of artificial intelligence also suffers from a lack of an apophatic element. The tradition of artificial intelligence originates from the Platonic raptures of the Renaissance, the belief that the world was created by a God-geometer (Nicholas of Cusa and others). Later, this line was picked up in the 17th century (R. Descartes, G.-V. Leibniz), by the end of the 19th century it was realized in the creation of mathematical logic and algorithmic languages, and in the 20th — their implementation in information technology

Keywords

sophiology, artificial intelligence, Platonism, apophatics, Renaissance, gnosticism

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