Feb 6, 2016
Technology is increasing by the day. In Hayles reading, she shows us how humans have now became post-humans. Technology is advancing so fast that soon there will be robots that look exactly like humans. Soon humans will be the thing of the past. In the Macy Conference on Cybertonics, they assumed that humans will become a "information-processing entities who are essentially similar to intelligent machines." Humans will no longer have a purpose because machines will be doing all the work in the world. Hayles defines humanism as post-humanism because of the increasing of technology. I would define humanism as the act of living freely in a world where you can do anything you'd like. Hayle's defines post-humanism as the union between humans and machines. I would define post-humanism as the world moving on from humans into a new specie. These two definitions differ from each other because Hayles definition is based on a scientifically idea. While my definition is based on my own feelings and thoughts towards humans becoming a thing of the past. I am post-human to the extent that humans today have far more advanced technology than humans 200 years ago. My intelligence has all grown from humans who were born before me. Although I am afraid of becoming a thing of the past I would still love to see human intelligence inside a machine. I believe our world would actually benefit from our technology advancement.
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Hey Christopher,
ReplyDeleteThat's so crazy! I thought along the same lines as you. I always considered humanism as a way that humans adapted to their environment in aid of their survival. So in that sense it's still the free will to do what you desire whenever and however you want. I feel like now, we are advancing way more than before due to technology but at the same time, technology still continues to hinder us from personal growth. The more technology advances the more reliant we become, and the less likely will we be able to use our skills in such a growing environment. This whole subject of artificial intelligence is very interesting because these are some things I never thought about on a day to day basis.
What's up Chris! Our definitions of humanism are very similar I saw because being free to do whatever to do so or to be unique makes you human. It kind of goes along the lines of what we were just talking about the other day in class, human rights. I'm not to sure if would like to see humans become machines though. It would be very cool at first, but just imagine if it became a trend then boom the end of the human race. Scary. Nice reading your post Chris!
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