The Tree: Description
- To adopt a more Posthuman perspective for this project, I am reading Patricia MacCormack's book on Posthuman ethics: embodiment and cultural theory. This book discusses top-down and bottom-up ethics that brings about new ways of thinking of ethics when dealing with the advent of Posthumanist thought.
- Another obstacle I am dealing with is how to draw the contrast between humanist, anti-humanist and post-humanist thoughts into machine ethics. Examples of Humanist thought is evident everywhere while Post-humanist thought requires untrained, infantile pathways for imagination. But I think my short story will attempt to accomplish this.
How to reach the next step:
• What are you doing in your final project and why? How are your objectives related to the course objectives and discussions?
- My final project will include a compilation of chapters that defamiliarize the audience.
- Each chapter will imagine and reiterate the new Posthuman laws I am proposing that machines and humans will both live by.
- Machine ethics involves Life beyond Species- viewing life from a near objective, non human subjectivity.
- Post-anthropocentrism is the driving force of this project- allowing the audience to experience the embodiment and perception of the machine.
This page has paths:
- The Tree: Presentation MAIN William Youm