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A Posthumanist Theory is a theory of the future that ...
- AKA: Posthumanism.
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- See: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, Anthropocentrism, Antihumanism, Transhumanism, Culture Theory, Technoscientific, Posthuman Condition.
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- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumanism Retrieved:2022-9-12.
- Posthumanism or post-humanism (meaning "after humanism” or "beyond humanism") is a term with at least seven definitions according to philosopher Francesca Ferrando:[1]
- Antihumanism: any theory that is critical of traditional humanism and traditional ideas about humanity and the human condition.[2]
- Cultural posthumanism: a branch of cultural theory critical of the foundational assumptions of humanism and its legacy[3] that examines and questions the historical notions of "human" and "human nature", often challenging typical notions of human subjectivity and embodiment[4] and strives to move beyond archaic concepts of “human nature” to develop ones which constantly adapt to contemporary technoscientific knowledge.[5]
- Philosophical posthumanism: a philosophical direction[6] that draws on cultural posthumanism, the philosophical strand examines the ethical implications of expanding the circle of moral concern and extending subjectivities beyond the human species. [7]
- Posthuman condition: the deconstruction of the human condition by critical theorists.[8]
- Posthuman transhumanism: a transhuman ideology and movement which seeks to develop and make available technologies that eliminate aging, enable immortality and greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities, in order to achieve a “posthuman future".[9]
- AI takeover: A variant of transhumanism in which humans will not be enhanced, but rather eventually replaced by artificial intelligences. Some philosophers, including Nick Land, promote the view that humans should embrace and accept their eventual demise.[10] This is related to the view of “cosmism", which supports the building of strong artificial intelligence even if it may entail the end of humanity, as in their view it "would be a cosmic tragedy if humanity freezes evolution at the puny human level".[11][12][13]
- Voluntary Human Extinction, which seeks a "posthuman future" that in this case is a future without humans.[14]
- Posthumanism or post-humanism (meaning "after humanism” or "beyond humanism") is a term with at least seven definitions according to philosopher Francesca Ferrando:[1]
- ↑ Ferrando, Francesca (2013). "Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms: Differences and Relations". Existenz. ISSN 1932-1066. http://www.existenz.us/volumes/Vol.8-2Ferrando.pdf. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
- ↑ J. Childers/G. Hentzi eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p. 140-1
- ↑ Esposito, Roberto (2011). "Politics and human nature". Angelaki 16 (3): 77–84. doi:10.1080/0969725X.2011.621222.
- ↑ Miah, A. (2008) A Critical History of Posthumanism. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick R. (2008) Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity. Springer, pp.71-94.
- ↑ Badmington, Neil (2000). Posthumanism (Readers in Cultural Criticism). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-76538-8.
- ↑ Ferrando, Francesca (2019-06-27). Philosophical Posthumanism. Bloomsbury Reference Online. ISBN 9781350059498. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosophical-posthumanism-9781350059498. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ↑ Morton, Timothy, 1968 (9 March 2018). Being ecological. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-262-03804-1. OCLC 1004183444. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004183444.
- ↑ Hayles, N. Katherine (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-32146-2.
- ↑ Bostrom, Nick (2005). A history of transhumanist thought. http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/history.pdf. Retrieved 2006-02-21.; Oliver Krüger: Virtual Immortality. God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism., Bielefeld: transcript 2021
- ↑ "The Darkness Before the Right". http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/good-luck-to-human-kind. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
- ↑ Hugo de Garis (2002). "First shot in Artilect war fired". http://www.iss.whu.edu.cn/degaris/news/zurich.html.
- ↑ "Machines Like Us interviews: Hugo de Garis". 3 September 2007. http://www.machineslikeus.com/cms/interview-hugo-de-garis.html. "gigadeath – the characteristic number of people that would be killed in any major late 21st century war, if one extrapolates up the graph of the number of people killed in major wars over the past 2 centuries"
- ↑ Garis, Hugo de. "The Artilect War - Cosmists vs. Terrans". http://agi-conf.org/2008/artilectwar.pdf. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
- ↑ Torres, Phil (12 September 2017). Morality, foresight, and human flourishing : an introduction to existential risks. Durham, North Carolina. ISBN 978-1-63431-143-4. OCLC 1002065011. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002065011.