THE VICARIOUS POTENTIAL OF THE BODY IN DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: TOWARD ARTIFICIAL EMOTIONS?

Artificial intelligence, with its pervasive impact on science and society, has raised significant questions regarding the integration of technologies in daily life and its effects on personal, prosocial and educational aspects, extending to emotional and cognitive domains. This study explores the importance of immersive education that, by enhancing the vicarious role of the body, emphasizes emotional intelligence as a fulcrum for harmonious personality development, defining new educational scenarios. Through an analysis of the vicarious potential of bodily experiences and an approach that privileges the structuring of knowledge as a process of discovery, a vision is proposed in which new technologies serve as social catalysts and vehicles of cultural authenticity within digital learning environments.