Title: Human / Machine and the Talisman
1Human / Machineand theTalisman
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3Technologies
4- Genetics
- Robotics
- Information Technologies
- Nano Technologies
5- 6, 7 go to HELL go to HEAVEN
- or somewhere in between
6Blade Runner, 1982. Ridley Scott
7 8- Anatomy and physiology
- Life cycle
- Genetics
- Race and ethnicity
- Habitat
- Population
- Human evolution
- Intelligence
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Culture Origins Language Music Emotions Sexuality
Body Image Economics Artifacts Science
, Technology Mind, psychology Philosophy
Motivations Self-Reflection Humanism
9The Thinker, 1880. Auguste Rodin
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11- Humanism
- Dignity and worth for all people
- Rationality and judgment
- Truth and morality in support of human interests
- Autonomous liberal subject
- Inherent conflict of religion and science
- Posthuman as a threat ?
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12- Mankinds a dead issue now, cousin.
- - Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix
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23- The New Godmust be humanized lest it in turn
dehumanize us. - - Paul Strand, 1924
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27Master-Slave Circuit
28Blade Runner, I can see you
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30Considering the Posthuman
- Evolution
- Artificial Intelligences
- Uploaded Consciousness
- Techno-Biological augmentations
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32- The body is no abstract notion
33- Artificial Life / Artificial Intelligence
34- Photo collage from flickr.com
35 36Artificial Intelligence - Top Down
Artificial Life - Bottom Up
37Artificial Life - Bottom Up
38Computational simulation of biologic systems
- Evolutionary computation
- Genetic algorithms
- Genetic programming
- Swarm intelligence
- Ant colony optimization
- Cellular automata
39Draughtsman-Writer, 1700s. de Maillardet
40Digesting Duck, 1739. Jacques de Vaucanson
41What is life ?
42 Grower, 2004. Sabrina Raaf
43Grower, 2004. Sabrina Raaf
44What is intelligence ?
45Artificial Intelligence - Top Down
46Creatures 1 screenshot, released 1996. Mindscape
47Tamagotchi
48The SIMS 2
4913th Floor, 1999. Josef Rusnak
50Second Life World Map
51Second Life, Club
52 53- Midway between the unintelligible and the
commonplace, it is metaphor which most produces
knowledge. - Aristotle, Rhetoric
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56Blade Runner, Pris and the Mannequins
57Blade Runner, The Eye
58Blade Runner, My Mother
59Blade Runner, Game of Chess
60Blade Runner, Owl
61Blade Runner, Roy with Dove
62Blade Runner, Orgami Unicorn
63- Personifying Objects through Metaphor
64GPS Table, Dunne and Raby
65- Magic, Illusion, Talisman
66Laurie Anderson and her Talking Stickfrom
Songs and Tales from Moby Dick
67Drawing with Three Hands, Stelarc
68Laser Eyes, Stelarc
69Stretched Skin, Stelarc
70- "Simply, the body has created an information and
technological environment which it can no longer
cope with. This sort of Aristotelian impulse to
continuously accumulate more and more information
has created the situation where human cortical
capacity just can't absorb and creatively process
all this information. This is one of the human
and technological pressures that make for the
computer. It was necessary to create technology
to take over what the body can no longer do. It's
created a technology that far surpasses certain
capabilities of itself ... we've created the
potential of life without humanity. The only
evolutionary strategy I see is triggering an
evolutionary dialectic, to incorporate technology
into the body ... technology, symbiotically
attached and implanted into the body creates a
new evolutionary synthesis, creates a new human
hybrid - the organic and synthetic coming
together to create a new sort of evolutionary
energy." - Stelarc
71Remote, Stelarc