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The Post-Turing Condition: Conceptualising Artificial Subjectivity and Synthetic Sociality

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12938v1
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:46:52 GMT
Title: The Post-Turing Condition: Conceptualising Artificial Subjectivity and Synthetic Sociality
Authors: Thorsten Jelinek, Patrick Glauner, Alvin Wang Graylin, Yubao Qiu,
Abstract summary: In the Post-TurTuring era, artificial intelligence increasingly shapes social coordination and meaning formation.<n>The central challenge is whether processes of interpretation and shared reference are automated in ways that marginalize human participation.<n>This paper proposes Quadrangulation as a design principle for socially embedded AI systems.
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Abstract: In the Post-Turing era, artificial intelligence increasingly shapes social coordination and meaning formation rather than merely automating cognitive tasks. The central challenge is therefore not whether machines become conscious, but whether processes of interpretation and shared reference are progressively automated in ways that marginalize human participation. This paper introduces the PRMO framework, relating AI design trajectories to four constitutive dimensions of human subjectivity: Perception, Representation, Meaning, and the Real. Within this framework, Synthetic Sociality denotes a technological horizon in which artificial agents negotiate coherence and social order primarily among themselves, raising the structural risk of human exclusion from meaning formation. To address this risk, the paper proposes Quadrangulation as a design principle for socially embedded AI systems, requiring artificial agents to treat the human subject as a constitutive reference within shared contexts of meaning. This work is a conceptual perspective that contributes a structural vocabulary for analyzing AI systems at the intersection of computation and society, without proposing a specific technical implementation.

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