Could a machine or an AI ever feel human-like emotions ? http://t.co/E3R7oPFZNP #mscedc
From January 2015
Initial thoughts on critical posthumanism
The concept/philosophy shares many similarities with transhumanism. However, it also acknowledges that humans have a cultural history that informs their future development, and that this history will continue to have import.
The critical posthuman is not the endstage in human evolution. It is an acknowledgement that we have expanded our conscious minds to account for more than humans. We are not anthropocentric, we are biocentric. In Hayles (1999) opinion, we are already posthuman.
To be continued as my cognitive posthuman schema evolves…
Hayles, K.N. (1999) Towards embodied virtuality. In: How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cyernetics, literature and informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. pp. 293–297.
Cellular Automaton — from Wolfram MathWorld
Cellular Automaton — from Wolfram MathWorld.
An ‘information code’ that could be considered a life form (Hayles, 1999, p.11)
Hayles, K.N. (1999) Towards embodied virtuality. In: How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1-24.
See invisible motion, hear silent sounds
TED Talk Michael Rubinstein (link to Livescribe pdf notes)
Hand Fixing Hand, A Sci-Fi Homage to M. C. Escher’s Drawing Hands
Hand Fixing Hand, A Sci-Fi Homage to M. C. Escher’s Drawing Hands http://t.co/GajFnGbwAE via @LaughingSquid #mscedc
The real cyborgs: forget wearable tech, these people are implanting technology in to their bodies and brains
The real cyborgs: forget wearable tech, these people are implanting technology in to their bodies and brains http://t.co/h3ZqUX5Ak7 #mscedc
Interview with Stefan Herbrechter, author of Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis
Interview with Stefan Herbrechter, author of Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis http://t.co/QdePCvor4D #mscedc
Transhumanism v posthumanism
Google fight recorded by jindarling
So much more difficult to get a clear picture of posthumanism. Struggling to understand the differences, I get that it is a philosophical thing but philosophy and humanism are not stuff that I have studied before so a steep learning curve ahead of me. Still I have a couple of weeks, no need to do it all in one day!
How Drugs Helped Invent the Internet & The Singularity: Jason Silva on “Turning Into Gods”
The coming transhuman era: Jason Sosa at TEDxGrandRapids
