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    Symbolism, Digital Culture and Artificial Intelligence
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2025) Lévy, Pierre
    This article is an invited contribution in the form of an essay, with the aim of illustrating the modalities of use and development of artificial intelligence in learning environments and as a support for educational design and research.The aim is to place electronic computing in an anthropological perspective, to outline the salient features of the new digital culture, and to articulate the most positive purpose of artificial intelligence, which is to aid in the creation, preservation and acquisition of knowledge. In the first part, I will show that access to symbolic cognition, which is unique to the human species, implies a correspondence between the sensible world and the intelligible world. Therefore, transformations of sensible objects can mean transformations of concepts. This is why, like language, the notion of calculation is inscribed in the very essence of the human being.In the second part, I'll sketch out a genealogy of automatic calculation that leads to contemporary culture, based on the collective feeding and real-time sharing of a digital memory common to humanity.The third part of the article describes the two main trends in contemporary artificial intelligence, symbolic models and neural models, with their advantages and disadvantages. I then suggest an original solution to overcome the division between the two approaches, combining the main advantages of both types of modelswhile minimizing their disadvantages.The article concludes with a brief discussion of the problem of machine consciousness.