Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
How to think with Fernando Pessoa
Subtitle
Heteronymism as a model for critical thinking and multi-agent systems
Title Information (lang="por")
Title
Como pensar com Fernando Pessoa
Subtitle
Heteronimismo como modelo para o pensamento crítico e sistemas multiagente
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Name Part
Ilievska, Ana
affiliation
American University of Beirut – Mediterraneo
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articles
Origin Information
Date Issued
December 2025
Date Issued (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2025-12
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (iso639)
eng
Language Term: Text
English
Physical Description
Extent (unit="pages")
18
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born digital
Abstract (lang="eng")
This paper explores the relevance of Fernando Pessoa’s heteronymism for thinking in the age of generative Artificial Intelligence, focusing on systems like ChatGPT. Drawing on Julian Jaynes’s theory of consciousness and Hannah Arendt’s reflections on thinking, I argue that AI, while offering cognitive enhancement, risks eroding critical reflection by automating judgment—echoing Jaynes’s “bicameral mind” and Arendt’s “great evil” of unthought. Pessoa’s heteronymism provides a model for cultivating robust inner dialogue, where multiple perspectives generate meaning. Such plurality sustains human critical capacities and offers a framework for envisioning dialogical, multi-agent AI systems, resisting cognitive entropy and passive engagement.
Abstract (lang="por")
Este artigo explora a relevância do heteronimismo de Fernando Pessoa para o pensamento na era da Inteligência Artificial generativa, com foco em sistemas como o ChatGPT. Com base na teoria da consciência de Julian Jaynes e nas reflexões de Hannah Arendt sobre o pensar, argumento que a IA, embora ofereça formas de ampliação cognitiva, corre o risco de erodir a reflexão crítica ao automatizar o juízo – ecoando a “mente bicameral” de Jaynes e o “grande mal” da ausência de pensamento em Arendt. O heteronimismo pessoano surge, assim, como modelo para cultivar um diálogo interior robusto, sustentando a pluralidade crítica humana e inspirando sistemas de IA dialógicos e multiagentes.
Subject
Name: Personal (naf) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50016857")
Name Part
Pessoa, Fernando
Name Part: Date
1888-1935
Subject
Topic (Local) (lang="eng")
Heteronymism
Subject
Topic (LCSH) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003202")
Critical thinking
Subject
Topic (LCSH) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2024002684")
Generative artificial intelligence
Subject
Topic (LCSH) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009010910")
Multiagent systems
Subject
Topic (Local) (lang="por")
Heteronimismo
Subject
Topic (Local) (lang="por")
Pensamento crítico
Subject
Topic (Local) (lang="por")
Inteligência artificial generativa
Subject
Topic (Local) (lang="por")
Sistemas multiagente
Related Item: Host
Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
Pessoa Plural
Part Number
Issue 28
Related Item: Host
Title Information (lang="por")
Title
Pessoa Plural
Part Number
No. 28
Part
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
28
Part Caption
no.
Extent (unit="page")
Start
230
End
247
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Identifier: DOI
10.26300/xqy0-yw66