Posthumanism

Post-Human
Marisa de Franca
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In the 21st century, humans are being displaced as the central form of life by intellectual machines. The human body can be seen as a metaphor, a physical structure. The body has constraints and endless possibilities that throughout history has revolutionised that machines do not share. In the contemporary world humans are now able to enter into symbiotic relationships with machines, but there is a difference in the way in which humans articulate with machines.

The world has increasingly become unconcerned with health issues, and many people (even in South Africa); with money will be able to delay the effects of diseases and unhealthy eating. This has arrived as new cultural configuration. This has also become a process of transformation, due to assumptions that are encoded in pattern and or randomness and popular culture. Pattern over presence attains a type of immortality; people are not being regarded as informational patterns. Many people associate modern living with the influence of “superstars” and “trendsetters”, because media (one type of medium) has brainwashed us into believing what is in fashion. This transformation (Post-human) soon loses the basic importance of human life such as religion because presence is aligned with God.

Post-human sounds very similar to antihuman, because it envisions a certain kind of conception that has ended such as: choice, leisure, health and wealth. Many people prefer to use “machines”, that will be able to make choices for them and that are able to do their tasks for them. Technology has become far more infiltrating in our lives then what it was before. People rely on technology to be able to live longer too.

Post-humanity is becoming the fusion between man and machine, real and artificial. This line is becoming very thin in terms of cloning, simulated emotions, communications and with identities.

One should be careful the way the post-human is presented. Post-human can be presented as something to be feared due to its building and its understanding. One should also take notice how technology is influencing our social and economic environments.