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Pill Pod 105 - AI, Transhumanism & Silicon Valley Singularity Cults

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Post-Humanism and Humanism

Transhumanists are just not interested in that because it's just a big fucking PR campaign for engineering and like a nanotechnology. The reason post-modernist post-humanists want to get away from anthropocentrism is because what you were describing kind of yeah no I get that I think but then it brings up the problems you were asking about. Jane Bennett's answer in vibrant material in the vibrant material book she wrote we have to cultivate anthropomorphism more consciously than cultivating anthropomorphism. We can only think things Kantian perspective right we can only thinkThings according to the structures of consciousness that are present everything's already interpreted for us in a certain way as we begin thinking.

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