{"id":16482,"date":"2026-05-11T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.n5now.com\/borges-wittgenstein-y-la-inteligencia-artificial-la-era-de-las-palabras-sin-mundo\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:28:13","slug":"borges-wittgenstein-y-la-inteligencia-artificial-la-era-de-las-palabras-sin-mundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.n5now.com\/en\/borges-wittgenstein-y-la-inteligencia-artificial-la-era-de-las-palabras-sin-mundo\/","title":{"rendered":"Borges, Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence: The Age of Words Without a World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Gisela Colombo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades we thought that technology and literature inhabited opposite territories: one associated with efficiency; the other, to human experience. However, the emergence of artificial intelligence produced an unexpected phenomenon. Many of the dilemmas that seem to be opening up today had already been imagined \u2013 with disturbing lucidity \u2013 by writers and philosophers of the twentieth century. Borges and Wittgenstein, from different traditions, intuited something that reappears with force today: the decisive problem of the future would not be the machine, but language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent expansion of artificial intelligence has installed an unprecedented concern. Systems capable of writing, answering complex questions, holding conversations, and producing emotionally compelling texts began to occupy a space that until recently seemed uniquely human. And yet, behind those words there is no memory, body or experience. The machine speaks of love without having loved, of fear without having feared, of death without awareness of finitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There emerges one of the deepest philosophical tensions of our time: words begin to circulate separated from the experience that historically gave them meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wittgenstein had warned that language is not a transparent territory. “Philosophy is a struggle against the spell of our intelligence by means of language,” he wrote in his Philosophical Investigations. The phrase resonates today with unexpected intensity. Artificial intelligence produces coherent, persuasive and emotionally plausible discourses, but detached from concrete human experience. For the first time we live with words capable of simulating understanding without a verifiable consciousness behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borges imagined this scenario long before the internet existed. In his stories, language ceases to describe reality and slowly begins to replace it. In “Tl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, a fiction ends up supplanting the real world; in “The Library of Babel”, the infinite excess of information makes it impossible to distinguish between truth and delirium. Read today, these texts seem less like metaphysical fantasies than cultural anticipations of contemporary artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the problem is no longer the lack of information, but its unlimited proliferation. The more language the world produces, the harder it seems to find meaning. Abundance does not guarantee understanding; it often produces saturation, noise and bewilderment. In the age of generative AI, vertigo does not come from silence, but from an excess of meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, Borges is once again disturbingly contemporary. Not because he technically foresaw artificial intelligence, but because he understood before many others that language could emancipate itself from reality and transform itself into an autonomous labyrinth. AI seems to inhabit exactly that ambiguous territory: a machinery capable of producing meaning without full human experience behind that meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And perhaps therein lies the real vertigo of this revolution. Not in automation or productivity, but in the erosion of an ancient certainty: the idea that language was the indisputable proof of human consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The literature had been formulating this suspicion for decades. Artificial intelligence simply made it impossible to ignore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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