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Michael Tsarion The Posthuman World (2012) with ebooks
Michael Tsarion's six hour presentation "The Posthuman World," filmed in Melbourne Australia,
November 2011. Click through to unslaved.com to watch free presentations and make a donation.
videos:
Michael Tsarion - The Posthuman World - 6 hours 12 min
ebooks:
Aaron McCollum The Transhumanism Pandemic.pdf
Death of the PostHuman.pdf
John C Lilly and E J Gold Tanks for the Memories Floatation Tank Talks.pdf
John C Lilly Simulations of God.pdf
John C Lilly The Center of the Cyclone An Autobiography of Inner Space.pdf
John C Lilly The Scientist A Metaphysical Autobiography.pdf
Ten Years to the Singularity.pdf
The Crowd by Gustav Le Bon.pdf
The Posthuman Condition.pdf
Posthuman
Posthuman or post-human is a concept originating in the fields of science fiction, futurology,
contemporary art, and philosophy that literally means a person or entity that exists in a state
beyond being human. The concept addresses questions of ethics and justice, language and
trans-species communication, social systems, and the intellectual aspirations of
interdisciplinarity. Posthumanism is not to be confused with transhumanism (the
nano-bio-technological enhancement of human beings) and narrow definitions of the posthuman as the
hoped-for transcendence of materiality.
In critical theory, the posthuman is a speculative being that represents or seeks to re-conceive the
human. It is the object of posthumanist criticism, which critically questions Renaissance humanism,
a branch of humanist philosophy which claims that human nature is a universal state from which the
human being emerges; human nature is autonomous, rational, capable of free will, and unified in
itself as the apex of existence. Thus, the posthuman position recognizes imperfectability and
disunity within him or herself, and understands the world through heterogeneous perspectives while
seeking to maintain intellectual rigour and a dedication to objective observations. Key to this
posthuman practice is the ability to fluidly change perspectives and manifest oneself through
different identities. The posthuman, for critical theorists of the subject, has an emergent ontology
rather than a stable one; in other words, the posthuman is not a singular, defined individual, but
rather one who can "become" or embody different identities and understand the world from multiple,
heterogeneous perspectives.[1]
Critical discourses surrounding posthumanism are not homogeneous, but in fact present a series of
often contradictory ideas, and the term itself is contested, with one of the foremost authors
associated with posthumanism, Manuel de Landa, decrying the term as "very silly."[2] Covering the
ideas of, for example, Robert Pepperell's The Posthuman Condition, and Hayles's How We Became
Posthuman under a single term is distinctly problematic due to these contradictions.
The posthuman is roughly synonymous with the "cyborg" of A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway.[3]
Haraway's conception of the cyborg is an ironic take on traditional conceptions of the cyborg that
inverts the traditional trope of the cyborg whose presence questions the salient line between humans
and robots. Haraway's cyborg is in many ways the "beta" version of the posthuman, as her cyborg
theory prompted the issue to be taken up in critical theory.[4]
Following Haraway, Hayles, whose work grounds much of the critical posthuman discourse, asserts that
liberal humanism - which separates the mind from the body and thus portrays the body as a "shell" or
vehicle for the mind - becomes increasingly complicated in the late 20th and 21st centuries because
information technology put the human body in question. Hayles maintains that we must be conscious of
information technological advancements while understanding information as "disembodied," that is,
something which cannot fundamentally replace the human body but can only be incorporated into it and
human life practices.[5]
Transhumanism
Definition
According to transhumanist thinkers, a posthuman is a hypothetical future being "whose basic
capacities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer unambiguously human by our
current standards."[6]
Methods
Posthumans could be completely synthetic artificial intelligences, or a symbiosis of human and
artificial intelligence, or uploaded consciousnesses, or the result of making many smaller but
cumulatively profound technological augmentations to a biological human, i.e. a cyborg. Some
examples of the latter are redesigning the human organism using advanced nanotechnology or radical
enhancement using some combination of technologies such as genetic engineering, psychopharmacology,
life extension therapies, neural interfaces, advanced information management tools, memory enhancing
drugs, wearable or implanted computers, and cognitive techniques.[6]
Posthuman future
As used in this article, "posthuman" does not necessarily refer to a conjectured future where humans
are extinct or otherwise absent from the Earth. As with other species who speciate from one another,
both humans and posthumans could continue to exist. However, the apocalyptic scenario appears to be
a viewpoint shared among a minority of transhumanists such as Marvin Minsky and Hans Moravec, who
could be considered misanthropes, at least in regards to humanity in its current state.
Alternatively, others such as Kevin Warwick argue for the likelihood that both humans and posthumans
will continue to exist but the latter will predominate in society over the former because of their
abilities.[7] Recently, scholars have begun to speculate that posthumanism provides an alternative
analysis of apocalyptic cinema and fiction, often casting vampires, werewolves and even zombies as
potential evolutions of the human form and being.[8]
Many science fiction authors, such as Greg Egan, H.G Wells, Bruce Sterling, Frederik Pohl, Greg
Bear, Charles Stross, Neal Asher, Ken MacLeod and authors of the Orion's Arm Universe,[9] have
written works set in posthuman futures.
Posthuman god
A variation on the posthuman theme is the notion of a "posthuman god"; the idea that posthumans,
being no longer confined to the parameters of human nature, might grow physically and mentally so
powerful as to appear possibly god-like by present-day human standards.[6] This notion should not be
interpreted as being related to the idea portrayed in some science fiction that a sufficiently
advanced species may "ascend" to a higher plane of existence—rather, it merely means that some
posthuman beings may become so exceedingly intelligent and technologically sophisticated that their
behaviour would not possibly be comprehensible to modern humans, purely by reason of their limited
intelligence and imagination.[10]
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