Homo Hallucinatas: The Idea of Double Inversion in the Study of Man

The article advances the notion that contemporary philosophy exists not as an ontology, but rather as an anthropology. The author posits that our understanding of being is contingent upon our comprehension of the human condition. Through an examination of the intellectual debate between M. Foucault and A. Badiou, the author demonstrates that I. Kant was the pioneer in European philosophy to interrogate the essence of humanity, thereby inaugurating an anthropological mode of philosophical thought. Building upon Kant’s proposition, the author presents the intriguing hypothesis that the essence of humanity, or humanitas, is encapsulated within its capacity for hallucination, or hallucinatas. This perspective leads the author to introduce the novel philosophical concepts of “hallucenosis” and “explosion of hallucinations.” Here, “hallucenosis” refers to a collective of individuals engaged in a shared dream state, while “explosion of hallucinations” denotes the primal self-representation of humans as depicted in the rock art of the late Paleolithic era. The author gives particular emphasis to the concept of “double inversion” in human nature, a notion originally proposed in Russian philosophy by B.F. Porshnev and Yu.M. Borodai. Double inversion is interpreted as the emergence of self-consciousness, on one hand, and a speech event, on the other. The author further develops the idea that in contemporary human behavior, consciousness and intelligence are fundamentally disconnected. The conclusion drawn is that while intelligence facilitates animal existence in space, consciousness enables human life in time. In the author’s view, to hallucinate is essentially to live in time. The article substantiates the claim that organic intelligence and human intelligence operate within distinct sensoriums. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence, lacking its own sensorium, is argued to be non-existent in this context.

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