Ensayo— En el escenario contemporáneo, el filósofo inglés David Roden, plantea una desconexión entre el ser humano y el posthumano. En su Tésis de la Desconexión, Roden da cuenta de una realidad radicalmente autónoma, conformada por un espectro de entidades tecnogenéticas, que van ampliando sus capacidades humanas en grados arbitrarios hasta convertirse en una entidad posthumana radical o alienígena…
La espiritualidad es la manifestación de la vida, la noción de que estamos interconectados como un todo. Es un estado de conciencia que nos permite reconocernos como parte de un organismo diverso y vibrante. La vida fluye e irradia energía cósmica de manera continua e ilimitada. La espiritualidad nos permite sintonizar con esa energía y vibrar en armonía con el universo. Se trata de una experiencia fluida y transformadora que nos conecta con lo sagrado y lo trascendental, expandiendo nuestra percepción y comprensión del mundo.
Spirituality is the manifestation of life, the notion that we are interconnected as a whole. It is a state of consciousness that allows us to recognize ourselves as part of a diverse and vibrant organism. Life flows and radiates cosmic energy in a continuous and unlimited way. Spirituality allows us to tune in to that energy and vibrate harmoniously with the universe. It is a fluid and transformative experience that connects us with the sacred and the transcendental, expanding our perception and understanding of the world.
I design and build sensitive machines that enhance my cognitive abilities and facilitate the exploration of hybrid human-machine consciousness. My work is rooted in the principles of Philosophical Posthumanism and explores the possibilities of creating a new species that combines biological beings and machines. A key question I ponder is whether machines will ever develop the ability to experience emotions.
I had the opportunity to meet the cyborg artist and trans-species activist Neil Harbisson in the Design and Research Seminar at A/D/O, Brooklyn. Harbisson is known for having an antenna implanted in his head that allows him to perceive visible and invisible colors to the human eye. Through audible vibrations in his skull, he can also perceive colors from space, images, videos, music or phone calls using an Internet connection. He is color blind and the first human being officially recognized as a cyborg by a government (United Kingdom).
The logic behind truth is the pursuit of the unknown. But we cannot know truth. We can mention truth, exclaim truth, and even transmit truth, but we can’t know “truth” itself – we can only know the words, images, or ideas through which truth becomes embodied. Through this embodied intellectual approach to truth, we create a delusional image of power over reality. Faced with truth, our gaze dislocates, twists, and unfolds. But frankly, this perspective we hold of the modern problems of natural knowledge and the limits of our experience of the world has become a worn argument.
The acceptance of reality seems to be difficult for human beings. We complete the world from our imagination; this is how our sensitive apparatus works. Some individuals are more sensitive than others, others more skilled in the art of figuring the sensitiveness of the image, but we all are equally figuring out reality by completing information from our brain. We indeed imagine the world.
Emotions determine the quality of our lives. They occur in every relationship we care about—in the workplace, in our friendships, in dealings with family members, and in our most intimate relationships. They can save our lives, but they can also cause real damage. They may lead us to act in ways that we think are realistic and appropriate, but our emotions can also lead us to act in ways we regret terribly afterward1…
I recently discovered that my third machine was experiencing trauma. (…) In the winter of 2017, I met the American Artist and Art Therapist Sarah Valeri. Between the killing cold, her coffee and my tea, Sarah started to ask about the sensitive machines. We were captivated by a neverending conversation about how an object can have the ability to perceive the world artificially and how this deconstructive perceiving process was deeply related to the art therapy process.
Living in physical pain can be used as a deep meditation, a kind of exercise to be awake and to produce a vast experience about how and why we process feelings in a physical and mental ways…