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Computer technology, pharmacology, genetics, and neurosciences promise people the possibility of making fundamental technical changes to themselves. According to post-humanist theory, from the modifications humans perform on the human organism a post-human being will result which is supposed to have a massively broader spectrum of bodily and cognitive capabilities compared to humans. On the other hand, some essentially human characteristics will be dispensable for the post-human. For example, it has been assumed that such beings would not even require consciousness, since conscious experience might be more of a hindrance to the smooth functionality of action that will be needed in the future. This would mean that an almost unimaginable transformation would occur, and the oft-anticipated 'end of man' could become a reality in an unforeseen way. This book considers the post-humanist scenario from the perspectives of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cognitive science.
Contents
Foreword . - No Answer to the Question: What is (Post-)human?. - The Good Posthuman from California. - The Non-human Interfaces of the Real, Symbolic and Imaginary . - From the Nether Regions into Positivity: The Ubiquitous Loss of the Nexus. The Illusion of the Illusion. Under the 'Shroud of the Hidden Sense'. Positive Signs. The Rectified Drive of the Puppets. - Forwards to Nature: The Tertiary Nature. The Possibility of Natural Intelligence. No more Need for Bodies? Black Posthumanism. - Consciousness and the Unconscious - A Package Deal: Consciousness that comes to be ... deserves to perish wretchedly. A Last Subject. Objective Enjoyment. - Hermetics as a Medium. - References. - About theAuthor.
