Human / Machine and the Talisman

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Human / Machineand theTalisman
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• GRIN

Technologies
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• Genetics
• Robotics
• Information Technologies
• Nano Technologies

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• 6, 7 go to HELL go to HEAVEN
• or somewhere in between

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Blade Runner, 1982. Ridley Scott
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• What is Human ?

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• Anatomy and physiology
• Life cycle
• Genetics
• Race and ethnicity
• Habitat
• Population
• Human evolution
• Intelligence

Culture Origins Language Music Emotions Sexuality
Body Image Economics Artifacts Science
, Technology Mind, psychology Philosophy
Motivations Self-Reflection Humanism
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The Thinker, 1880. Auguste Rodin
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• 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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• Mankinds a dead issue now, cousin.
• - Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix

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• Man and Machine

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• The New Godmust be humanized lest it in turn
  dehumanize us.
• - Paul Strand, 1924

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Master-Slave Circuit
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Blade Runner, I can see you
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Considering the Posthuman

• Evolution
• Artificial Intelligences
• Uploaded Consciousness
• Techno-Biological augmentations

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• The body is no abstract notion

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• Artificial Life / Artificial Intelligence

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• Photo collage from flickr.com

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• Tags, flickr.com

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Artificial Intelligence - Top Down
Artificial Life - Bottom Up
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Artificial Life - Bottom Up
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Computational simulation of biologic systems

• Evolutionary computation
• Genetic algorithms
• Genetic programming
• Swarm intelligence
• Ant colony optimization
• Cellular automata

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Draughtsman-Writer, 1700s. de Maillardet
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Digesting Duck, 1739. Jacques de Vaucanson
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What is life ?
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Grower, 2004. Sabrina Raaf
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Grower, 2004. Sabrina Raaf
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What is intelligence ?
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Artificial Intelligence - Top Down
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Creatures 1 screenshot, released 1996. Mindscape
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Tamagotchi
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The SIMS 2
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13th Floor, 1999. Josef Rusnak
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Second Life World Map
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Second Life, Club
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• Visual Semiotics

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• Midway between the unintelligible and the
  commonplace, it is metaphor which most produces
  knowledge.
• Aristotle, Rhetoric

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• Michael is a snake.

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Blade Runner, Pris and the Mannequins
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Blade Runner, The Eye
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Blade Runner, My Mother
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Blade Runner, Game of Chess
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Blade Runner, Owl
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Blade Runner, Roy with Dove
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Blade Runner, Orgami Unicorn
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• Personifying Objects through Metaphor

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GPS Table, Dunne and Raby
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• Magic, Illusion, Talisman

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Laurie Anderson and her Talking Stickfrom
Songs and Tales from Moby Dick
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Drawing with Three Hands, Stelarc
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Laser Eyes, Stelarc
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Stretched Skin, Stelarc
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• "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

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