If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.

N. Katherine Hayles

Stichwörter: science theory posthumanism

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Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

Clyde DeSouza

Stichwörter: atheism artificial-intelligence inspirational-life transcendentalism posthumanism augmented-reality

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EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS...

Clyde DeSouza

Stichwörter: artificial-intelligence transhumanism posthumanism sifi

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