Posthumanism

Cyborg art

Cyborg art , also known as cyborgism , [1] is an art movement that began in the mid-2000s in Britain . [2] It is based on the creation and addition of new senses to the body via cybernetic implants [3] and the creation of art works through new senses. [4] Cyborg artworks are created by cyborg artists; [5] artists whose senses have been voluntarily enhanced through cybernetic implants. [6] Among the early …

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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. [1] The concept addresses issues of ethics and justice, language and trans-species communication, social systems, and the intellectual aspirations of interdisciplinarity. Posthumanism is not a confluence with transhumanism (the nanobiotechnological enhancement of human beings) and narrow …

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Mind uploading

Whole brain emulation ( WBE ), mind uploading or brain upload (sometimes called ” mind copying ” or ” mind transfer “) is the hypothetical process of scanning mental state (Including long-term memory and “self”) of a Particular brain substrate and copying it to a computer. The computer could then run a simulation model of the brain’s information processing, such that it responds in essentially the same way to the original …

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infomorph

An infomorph is a virtual body of information that possesses emergent features such as personality. The term coined in Was Charles Platt ‘s 1991 novel The Silicon Man , Where It Refers to a single biological consciousness Transferred into a computer through a process of mind transfer . In the book, a character refers to an infomorph as “intelligence held in a computer memory”, and …

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Posthumanism

Posthumanism or post-humanism (meaning “after humanism ” or “beyond humanism”) Francesca Ferrando : [1] Antihumanism : any theory that is critical of traditional humanism and traditional ideas about humanity and the human condition . [2]