{"title":"Possibilities [Un] locked: Questioning the Paradigm of ‘Artificial Consciousness’ and the Promise of ‘Transcendence’ in Jack Paglen’s ‘Transcendence’","authors":"Neval N. Mahmoud Abdullah","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.265235.1605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.265235.1605","url":null,"abstract":"While today’s ever -advancing A.I continues to increase unrelentingly, the revolutionary drive to animate matter, blend the mechanical with biology, and create unprecedented exact replicas of the human brain bearing traits of individuality becomes an actively debated topic in serious academic studies as well as in science fiction. Radically changing the way we interact with machines and computers, the revolutionary prospect of ‘artificial consciousness’, whose driving aspiration is to create unprecedented exact replicas of the human brain bearing traits of individuality, has raised crucial questions: Could consciousness be embedded in AI machines? Would these machines ever become sentient, autonomous, and human-like? And could they truly interpret needs and have their own subjective experiences, distinct emotions, memories, thought processes and beliefs of humans? Inspired by the techno-optimist approach of ‘Transhumanism’ and instigated by Ray Kurzweil’s theorization of ‘Technological Singularity’, the present paper is mainly concerned with demonstrating the unintended consequences of transgressing what has been ‘designed’ by nature. More precisely speaking, investigating the prospect of ‘Artificial Consciousness’– the plausibility of embedding and fully extending consciousness onto A.I. machines – along with questioning the transhumanist framing of technology as a form of transcendence. For this purpose, an in-depth, close textual analysis is conducted on Jack Paglen’s science fiction novelization, ‘Transcendence’ (2014), to finally reach the conclusion that technology is still a long way from attaining artificial consciousness. In other words, there is something intrinsic, special, and unique about human consciousness that cannot be replicated or captured by technology.","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"42 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141660015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Study between Chat GPT and Human Translation in Translating English Proverbs into Arabic","authors":"Maram El-Saadany","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.257874.1592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.257874.1592","url":null,"abstract":"Chatbots have been increasingly applied in language learning. It has a perceived effectiveness on the resulting knowledge of knowing the meaning of words. Proverbs are crucial in all languages and cultures. A proverb is defined in Collins dictionary as a short sentence that is often quoted by people to express something about life or to give advice. The proverbs used in this study are gathered from “One Thousand and One English Proverbs translated into Arabic” by Omar Jabak. This research aims to pinpoint the differences between human translation and chatbots while translating twenty proverbs from English to Arabic. Moreover, this study aims to detect the most frequent errors indicated by Chat GPT as a translation strategy. The results reveal that special kinds of errors are performed by some machine translation chatbots more than others . They fail to translate the cultural aspects of the language. Moreover, choosing wrong lexical items and too literal translation are commonly detected errors more than others when analyzing the machine translation techniques as they fail to connote the intended meaning of the proverbs. The findings reveal the fact that some kinds of errors frequently occurred more than others. Also, it shows that the kinds of mistakes detected when using partial equivalence and paraphrasing are very similar when translating proverbs. Distortion of meanings and “comprehension errors” are the most common traced errors when translating proverbs using “paraphrase”. Providing the correct translation without fully comprehending the source text is impossible. Furthermore, this study sheds light on the problems of translations provided by machine translations and the drawbacks of chat Gpt as a translation tool. Finally, further studies are needed in this field of research urgently.","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"75 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La smart-fiction : une fusion de technologie et d’imagination","authors":"Dalia A. METAWE","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.258071.1594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.258071.1594","url":null,"abstract":": Smartphones are essential in today’s society. Their use and access to various content has increased dramatically. They play a central role in storytelling through their digital display capabilities. Smartphones have become preferred channels for creating and distributing content. In this booming digital context, a new literary format is emerging called smart fiction , mobile fiction or mobile literature . In this article, we explore this new type of creation. Our goal is to answer the following questions: How does smart fiction redefine traditional storytelling by integrating interactive and immersive elements for readers and viewers? What makes smart fiction unique in terms of user experience, and how do these characteristics influence the way stories are told and perceived? How has the smartphone become a preferred tool for creating smart fiction, and how do we leverage smartphone features to enrich interactive narratives? What opportunities does smart fiction offer authors and creators to push the boundaries of storytelling and engage innovatively and personally with their audience? We will also highlight how smart fiction transforms the relationship between readers/viewers and story creators, allowing them to become co-authors or active participants in the construction of stories. We will examine the challenges that smart fiction creators face in terms of design, technological development, and storytelling in order to provide a fluid and captivating experience. Finally, we will discuss the potential impact of this new format on the entertainment industry, as well as on the production, distribution, and consumption of narrative content by the audience.","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"7 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141659396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"أثر السياق في التأويل البلاغي للفظة (كريم) في الذكر الحكيم","authors":"Mohammed .A. Mohammed Aloraini","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.260980.1597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.260980.1597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keep the Home Fires Burning: Citizenship, Affect and Acting Muslim in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017)","authors":"Muhammad Y. Aql","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.233273.1542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.233273.1542","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the representation of the growth and influence of an affective notion of citizenship in Anglophone fiction, with a critical focus on Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire (2017). Informed by post 9/11 Orientalist and Islamophobic notions of Islam, citizenship is perceived as an affective practice which relies on the intersection of anti-Muslim cultural economies and forms of acting Islam. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study relies primarily on Sara Ahmed’s affect theory (2004, 2014) and Khaled Beydoun’s notion of ‘Acting Muslim’ (2018, 2023). It seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of the relationship between anti-Muslim emotions and forms of acting Muslim in Shamsie’s novel and the influence of this affinity on the citizenship status of the Muslims living in post 9/11 British affective culture. Employing Ahmed’s concept of ‘affective economies’, it investigates how emotions of hate and suspicion get stuck to Muslim bodies in a way that vilifies their capacities of acting their Muslim identities, revoke their citizenship and push some of them to radicalization. The study ultimately concludes that in the post 9/11 world represented by Shamsie, emotions are crucial not only in understanding how Muslim citizens and immigrants are profiled as objects of hate and suspicion, but also in revealing the ways through which the cultural politics of citizenship, affect and acting Muslim intersect.","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140519502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employing the Traditional Character in the Dramatic Text: Analytical Study","authors":"Ahmed A. Mohamed Ali","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.235298.1547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.235298.1547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140526688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hyperbole in the Images' Captions of Arabic YouTube Videos: A Cognitive Study","authors":"Reham M. El-Said Khalifa","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.228195.1535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.228195.1535","url":null,"abstract":"The primary objective of the current research was to examine the use of hyperbole in the captions accompanying Arabic YouTube video images. To accomplish this objective, a random selection of 200 YouTube captions was made from the Arabic YouTube homepage. The analysis revealed that 70% of the captions included at least one instance of hyperbole. Furthermore, all forms of hyperbole were identified in the selected sample, except for repetition and comparative hyperbole. Additionally, it was discovered that all the forms of hyperbole in the sample, similar to metaphors, could be cognitively analyzed. For each hyperbole, the source domain and the target domain were investigated. In order to explore viewers' perception of the cognitive aspects of hyperbole, a questionnaire was developed. The results showed that 91% of the participants were able to recognize the cognitive features of hyperbole, and 86% of them indicated that the cognitive analysis of hyperbole in Arabic YouTube captions increased their inclination to watch the captioned videos. The current study's findings may serve as guidance for YouTube video makers since cognitive analysis of hyperbole may improve YouTube video views.","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140522109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sibawayh Evidences from Al-Asha's Poetry, Maymoon Bin Qais","authors":"Naser A. Ibrahim Abd elal","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.233927.1545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.233927.1545","url":null,"abstract":"This research, called (Sibawayh Evidences from Al-Asha's Poetry, Maymoon Bin Qais), talks about (Sibawayh) and about (Al-Asha: Maymoon Bin Qais), and about Al-Asha's poetic evidences that were mentioned in Sibawayh's book. It is divided into two sections, the first topic: provides a brief overview of Sibawayh, his status, his life, his most famous sheikhs, his students, and his death. And also a brief summary of the pre-Islamic poet (Al-Asha), his life, his status, and his poetry. The second topic: talks about the poetic evidence that was mentioned in Sibawayh's book of poetry (Al-Asha), and Sibawayh's position on it, and the explanation of the witness in it, as well as the statement of the opinions of scholars who explained Sibawayh's book in these evidence, as well as the opinions of some grammarians in these evidence, and these have been arranged The evidence as it was mentioned in the book of Sibawayh, and the statement of the position of the witness in (the book of Sibawayh), and its documentation from the Divan (Al-Asha), and from some other grammatical sources. And we followed that with a conclusion in which we mentioned the most important findings","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"98 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140525004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Application of Greimas's Factor Model to the Characters of the Short Story \"On the Train\" by Muhammad Taymur","authors":"Amal S. Muhammad Yahya","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.249352.1573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.249352.1573","url":null,"abstract":"Narrative semiotics is based on studying the various structures of discourse, starting from the superficial and deep structures to replacing the concept of character with the concept of agent and actor. The research relies on character analysis according to the factor model (Grimas) as an application to the first short story in Arabic literature. To discover how to achieve the factorial model on the short story, and to derive its interpretive implications through the character; Therefore, this research was entitled :The application of Greimas's to the characters of the short story (On the Train) by Muhammad Taymur. The research assumes that applying the will help reveal the structure of the characters in the story. The search is divided as follows: First : Introduction: A theoretical introduction to the short story, the importance of research, the methodology followed, and previous studies. Second : A theoretical introduction to Greimas’s factor model. Third : Analysis of the character in the story on the train according to Greimas’s factor model.","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"21 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140526780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linguistic Politeness in Israel- Pragmatic Study","authors":"Ahmed M. Abdul-aal Ibrahim","doi":"10.21608/jssa.2024.231075.1540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2024.231075.1540","url":null,"abstract":"وآداﺑﮭﺎ","PeriodicalId":250727,"journal":{"name":"مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب","volume":"32 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140516219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}