Return to the “Great Mother”. Digital Experiences, Communication, and Meaning Promises

Artificial intelligence represents both: the otherness with which human beings increasingly communicate; a means of communication with different non-human alters. In the context of these astonishing advances, interspecies communication is a certainly stimulating area of inquiry where, as I will attempt to argue, these technologies become the bearers and promoters of a promise of a total experience that the postmodern individual most often looks to with fascination. Thus, the possibility for individuals to enter into deep communion with “cosmoses” deemed significant will be the conceptual core from which the entire argumentation will be developed. Specifically, after briefly introducing some of the main aspects of postmodernity, in the first section I will proceed to an imaginal analysis of the digital universe. This is followed by a discussion of the promises of meaning and those of “fusional experiences” technologically mediated offered by the “totalizing” digital universe in which artificial intelligence plays a central role (Camorrino 2024a). These peculiar forms of communication and social relationship turn out to be an expression of the more general process of the “re-enchantment of the world” (Maffesoli 2016; 2021) which characterizes the postmodern Western society.