Philosophical Problems in Science (ZFN) · 2025
From Digital Twins to Entangled Twins: A Phenomenological Model for Industry 5.0
Floriana Ferro, Alessandro Giuseppe Privitera, Andrea Gulli, Michele Geronazzo
Introduces Entangled Twins (ETs), reworking the Digital Twin concept so that humans and AI systems become dynamically entangled rather than merely represented. Drawing on Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, the paper examines agency, responsibility, and human-centered design through a phenomenological lens, proposing a "We-subject" — a plural, co-constituted configuration of agency — and advancing an ethics of entanglement for Industry 5.0, illustrated through an audio-augmented case study.
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