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- 1. Brainstorm examples of the body/mind and technology relationship… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEfJRe4uys Certain images occur to us when we hear the term ‘technology’… ! Technology as something that is applied to the body (watch, pacemaker, glasses etc). ! Technology is constituted as a neutral tool that is separate from, and can be manipulated by, the subject whose intentions it serves. ! We also imagine technology as overcoming the limits of the human, of enabling new possibilities beyond the body.
- 2. The ‘Numbing Effect’ The ‘Numbing Effect’ cont.. ! “when we extend some part of our body artificially, we also distance ! Not just physically, but mentally ourselves from the amplified part and ! Hard and heavy works say, its natural function” researching, memorizing, and learning… ! Our ability to structure ! “as we increasingly automate work of our body, we cede control over the information, process data, solve a problem and apply knowledge… natural capability and dexterity to a powerful electronic system” Cyborgs “We shouldn’t allow the glories of technology to blind our inner watchdog to the possibility that we’ve numbed an essential part of our self ” – Nicolas Carr Soul, Reason, Perception, But… Memory, Emotion, If ‘the human mind is replaceable’… Empathy… What is the ‘essential part of our self ’? What makes us so ‘special’? What makes us ‘different’ from say animals and cyborgs?
- 3. …more human than human? Discussion Question: “The nightmare scenarios in most science fiction narratives of hybridity occur when the technology colonizes the human mind, turning it into ! Rather than embracing, we find the idea that our something ‘other’. These scenarios artificial creation can be ‘more human than usually present an artificial intelligence human’ threatening. Why? vanquishing the human elements of the hybrid, conventionally presented as ‘the ! What is the logic behind ‘more human than soul’. When the human is gone, there human’? are no souls .” ! How is it connected to the body-tech Blade Runer End Scene – Tears in the rain relationship? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw How rational are the fears? ! A History of Anxiety about new technologies… ‘Mobile phones could cause brain ‘Health fears as young become tumours in long-term users’(NYT screen zombies’ (smh December 7, 2006) April 11,2007) Thank you! ! When new technologies comes along, they may alter the status quo… " So anxieties may originate from the loss of ability to determine parameters of control