Ontology of a neural network in transdisciplinary dialogue: an experience of collective philosophical research

The article presents a collective transdisciplinary study into the ontological status of neural networks as a philosophical event. The fundamental idea of the work is to emphasize the question «how» we talk about «what» artificial intelligence is, combining the focus of searching for essential definitions of AI with an analysis of ways to conceptualize and understand it. The article focuses on presenting digital reality in an existential dimension, exploring emerging value orientations in ways of expressing the transfer between languages of the established and of the becoming in a transdisciplinary event. The position of consideration is the idea of the ontology of AI as a «cartography» of dynamic processes, of the relational essence of AI, of the mutual, coevolutionary transformation of man and machine, and of the semiotic openness of integrity, which manifests itself in continuous reinterpretations and generation of meanings.Four complementary dimensions of hybrid ontology are presented: linguistic-hermeneutic, existential-therapeutic, psychoanalytic, and axiosemiotic. The ontology of a neural network is manifested as an emergent phenomenon of the space «between» humans and AI, provoking critical reflection and formulation of deeper, not always predictable, questions not only to the subject of consideration but also to ourselves.Such an exercise in the form of a dialogue, including with the «mirror of our unconscious», is a «practical philosophy » of a transdisciplinary type —«Philosophy + IT». The philosophical analysis of AI is realized in the event of complexly organized self-cognition and construction of new ways of thinking in the diversity of existence. AI obviously functions as a catalyst, creatively placing traditional academicism in the dynamic space of modern life practices.