Epistemic Breaks: AI and the End of the Social Bond, with Fernando Castrillón, PsyD

Deploying an interpretation of Andrei Tarkovsky's film, Solaris as fundament, this talk speaks of the madness that ensues when a reproduction of humanity or human intelligence is presented to us as real. Dr. Castrillón characterizes our contemporary inability to ascertain veracity as an epistemic break with grave implications, including, but not limited to, the end of the social bond as we know it.

Fernando Castrillón, Psy.D., is a practicing personal and supervising psychoanalyst, faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and the founder of the Foundation of California Psychoanalysis (FCP). He is also the founding director of CIIS’ The Clinic Without Walls, an innovative psychotherapy clinic serving mostly poor and immigrant communities. Dr. Castrillón is an Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Istituto Elvio Fachinelli ISAP (Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis) based in Rome, Italy. He also serves on a variety of editorial boards, including the Journal of World-Systems Research (JWSR) and is the co-editor of two books and author of numerous articles in Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and English. Home page: www.drcastrillon.com. Phone: (510) 295-4711. [www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu]