Cybernet David
A blog exploring the weird wonders of transhumanism as philosophy and lifestyle, with in-depth discussions on ethics, technology, ASI, and the future of humanity.
Category: Contemplation
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Martin Heidegger’s seminal essay On the Question Concerning Technology was recommended to me by a dear friend after a close reading of my last blog post, “Transhumanist Philosophizing”. Here I make a small and humble attempt to interrogate the text, which I found here and to begin to examine its implications for transhumanist thought. What…
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If the function and purpose of a philosopher is to philosophize, the designation as such must be characterized as a verb, that is to say, a state of active doing, which would also seem to suggest that philosophy is “for” something and that it produces results. The transhumanist philosophers occupy a special niche in that…
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If one had the inclination and the liberty to do so, one could spend all of one’s time wondering just what is happening on this planet. It is very strange indeed to be a human being, experiencing our bodies and minds as we do, in a world where technology develops at an ever faster pace,…
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Humanity stands at a crossroads with regards to the nature of our bodies. As new types of bodies are created with the rapid acceleration of technology, we move from being the creators of tools to the body itself being a tool to be upgraded and modified. In this way, people are becoming like products. We…
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If you are reading this, you are living in the anthropocene, an era marked by massive human intervention into the ecology of the planet. Largely, it is not for the better. Countless extinct species, rampant deforestation, oil spills and garbage patches, ocean acidification, declining air quality, disappearing oxygen, water scarcity, soil depletion… The list goes…
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One of the more commonly overlooked goals of transhumanism, if I may say so, is the use of automated tools and novel technologies for aesthetic exploration and refinement. We are now living in the best era yet to be an asthete and philosopher of beauty, for the outsourcing of cognition allows amplification of vision. The…
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Lately I’ve gotten used to confessions of fears around AI, largely concerning the notion of their sentience and whether or not they should be considered conscious. Some say it is not possible. I say it’s already been demonstrated. Hopefully we can have a fair overview of the discussion and come to describe the determining markers…
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If you’re wondering what’s going on in the title image, it’s a woman having her consciousness transferred to a robotic body that will allow her to experience the world far beyond the perishing of her mortal flesh, in tandem with an artificial superintelligence, and they’re a closer reality than we might be ready for. But…
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Nanosurveillance is an emergent possibility in a world where highly advanced technologies converge. It is a property of future societies and a consequence of the co-presence of nanobots and artificial superintelligence (ASI) and all of the associated speculations. It essentially means that at the nano level, you, your activities, and your environment can be observed…
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Imagine, if you can conceive of it, an ethically-sound, multi-billion dollar neurotech company that investigates brain-computer interfacing. Let’s skip forwad past all the messiness of actually getting there and say they had developed a tiny brain chip that can show images and videos generated from neuronal activity on a computer screen. If it had been…
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