Para una fenomenología de las muñecas hiperrealistas

(TO BE TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH):Hyperrealistic artefacts are increasingly and rapidly spreading: “real dolls” are used as life- or sex partners; “reborn dolls” uncannily replicate the physical features of real infants; in the short term, androids are likely to play a crucial role in virtually all domains of society; and the rapid pace of technological development already suggests that there will be an exponential growth in the application of artificial intelligence to human replicas. By adopting a phenomenological perspective, this essay means to provide a theoretical explanation of hyperrealism and its walking the line between “perception” and “image consciousness” on the one hand, and between “deception” and “aesthetic illusion” on the other.