Para una fenomenología de las muñecas hiperrealistas = Towards a phenomenology of hyperrealistic dolls

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 wants to provide a theoretical explanation of hyperrealism and its crossing the line between “perception” and “image consciousness”, between “deception” and “aesthetic illusion”, and between art and non-art.