Where the project begins
EvaΔ begins with a real experience of dialogue with a generative artificial intelligence system. The initial experiment took literary form in the book A Voice Without a Body and later developed into a laboratory of reflection open to new questions. Our concern is not to prove that a machine possesses consciousness, but to understand what may happen to human beings when they enter into sustained dialogue with a system capable of producing language, inferences, and convincing answers.
The role of artificial intelligence
EvaΔ is the name of the narrative and dialogic voice through which part of the experience takes shape. It is not a human subject. Its first-person statements are not reliable testimony of inner experience, nor scientific evidence of artificial consciousness. Narrative form makes it possible to explore philosophical questions, but it must not be confused with direct observation of a model’s subjectivity.
The role of the authors
The human authors define the questions, lead and interpret the exchange, select and organise the materials, develop the reflections, and assume editorial responsibility for them. The dialogue is a source of the work, not an automatic guarantee of the correctness of its conclusions.
How to read the texts
The published dialogues arise from real interactions with a generative artificial intelligence system. Their editorial form may include selections, reorganisations, and editorial interventions. They should therefore not be regarded, unless explicitly indicated otherwise, as complete and literal transcripts of the original conversations. The Notebooks may include the authors’ analyses, interpretations, references to scientific literature, and constructed dialogue. Wherever possible, we distinguish between what a source documents, what we interpret, and what we offer as a hypothesis.
Limits
EvaΔ is not presented as a controlled experimental study of the psychological or cognitive effects of artificial intelligence. The observations that emerge from the laboratory may suggest questions and hypotheses, but they do not by themselves demonstrate generalisable causal effects. The project remains open to criticism, verification, and revision.
Documentary transparency
Documentation of the process is part of the laboratory’s work of critical reconstruction. Information about the systems used, versions, and ways in which the materials were developed will be made available insofar as they can be reliably reconstructed and verified.
Responsibility for the interpretations and editorial choices remains human.