The Is Not Mean The End Of Humanity And The Rise Of The Non Human

The Humans is about an alien who is discovering and comprehending the lifestyle of the human race by terminating a human by the name of Professor Andrew Martin. Professor Andrew Martin has just discovered a mathematic formula that will change the human race however, aliens believe that this formula is too much for the human race and terminates the professor. Matt Haig writes, “Listen, emotions have a logic. Without emotions humans wouldn’t care for each other, and if they didn’t care for each other the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.” (Pg. 170) Andrew shares emotions and feelings with his family, understanding the meaning

The novel Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera brings to light many issues faced by immigrant women. The novel follows the young Makina in her quest to find and bring home her brother from what she imagines to be a mystical far away land. While the novel focuses on the challenges of immigration, the underlying meaning is much more complex. In Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World, the common misconception that women cannot be the strong character in the novel is challenged. This is achieved by having the female protagonist, Makina, go on a quest to save her brother, be a vital individual in her community, and fight the misogynistic society she lives in.

In Yuri Herrera’s novel ‘’Signs Preceding the end of the world’’ present a girl, Makina, who go through a series of obstacles to find her brother and her own identity. In each chapter Makina went through these series of obstacle while exploring transformation in a journey across the border. As Makina go through these series of events, she encounters an abrupt event that wasn’t what she expected. Yuri Herrera does not just focus on the journey through the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the identity and change through people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back. Makina’s story develops within a novel centered on an equally

Koons starts off the intro of her satirical essay by using sarcasm and rhetorical in order to show the audience what is happening with the world at that time and establish the satire of her essay. In the first sentence, Koons claims that robots are better than humans, as they are humans “favorite things”, suggesting that the humans basically created their own “better” version. Koons utilizes a rhetorical question to ask why humans “are still there”, showcasing the dispensability and non-necessity of humans when robots are present. By doing so, Koons demonstrates that humans have, in a way, become the cause of their own downfall.

Anthropocene is a term used to describe earth’s history including when humans dominated a majority of natural processes globally. Anthropocence was a term used throughout the article to discuss the impact humankind had on the environment that caused many changes that had a negative impact over many years. Another term used was anthrones, the human footprint, which describes how much human kind has made lasting impassions on the earth. These terms have made me come to the realization anthropology operates at the crossroads of social and physical sciences, along with humanities to examine the diversity of humankind across many cultures and time.

“We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us.”(Minds). The word human is defined as “of, relating to, or characteristic of humans”(Webster Human). This definition gives us a perfect example of why the meaning of this term is so ambiguous. Debates over what truly defines a human have been going on for decades. The disputes over this have ranged from Frankenstein’s monster to Data the android from Star Trek. The question still remains, what truly defines a human? More importantly, can this be defined for us by society?

“I used to worry that computers would become so powerful and sophisticated as to take the place of the human minds,” expresses Lewis Thomas, the author of “The Corner of the Eye” [Thomas, 83]. A large part of Thomas’s fear of computers is due to the fact that “a large enough machine can do all sorts of intelligent things beyond our capacities” [Thomas, 83]. However, computers cannot replace us; he realizes computers cannot do some of the things that we can do, like being human. We like to be equivocal, imaginative, and self-conscious. Computers are the complete opposite of the traits that define us as human; or as Thomas states it, “they are not designed, as we are, for ambiguity” [Thomas, 83]. As witnessed by history, the present, and soon the future, it would be self-evident truth that computers will not take over us or be “us”.

Vonnegut's antiwar fiction illustrates war machines and time machines that produce thoughtless machine-like humans. He considers the paranoid fear of cybernetic system that is responsible for distopia in which humanity is devalued. (Babaee, 2014, pg. 6)

To examine this possibility, Garreau interviewed Nick Bostrom, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association. Bostrom shows his agreement with human transcendence by asserting that “Technological progress makes it harder for people to ignore the fact that we might actually change the human nature” (qtd. in Garreau, 242).

Humanity is often depicted in literature as a sort of exclusive club, where humans are distinctly separate from the animate and inanimate in the world around us. The rules that allow entry are so rarely defined. Humans are ipso facto part of humanity, but what about other beings? Those under the banner of humanity extend their capabilities with tools, machines, robots and computer intelligences. This interaction is human centric, and Human-Human interaction is approached in a very different way than Human-Computer interaction, or interaction with the tools we create. Science fiction gives us a way to explore situations where the lines between human and computer are blurred, where humans become less than human. Synthetics

Transhumanism is the idea that the advancement of technology will better the human species into a more advanced social and political existence, or literally meaning beyond human. There are many ways that transhumanism can be achieved throughout the next thirty years, some of these being medical modifications to the human body, how the human body reacts to the aging process, and those who are included to have basic human rights. Although transhumanism may give the human species certain advantages in their social and political lives, they risk their dignity, and uniqueness.

Andy Clark, in Natural-Born Cyborgs, offers an extended argument that technology’s impact on and intertwining with ordinary biological human life is not to be feared, either psychologically or morally. Clark offers several key concepts towards his line of reasoning. Clark argues that a human being thinks and reasons based on the biological brain and body dynamically linked with the culture and technological tools transparently accessible to the human. This form of thinking and reasoning develops new "thinking systems" that which over time become second nature thoughts and reasons and are the basis of even newer "thinking systems." It is a repetitive cycle that continues forever being built upon previous systems.

There is much speculation as to who the Antichrist. I know him to be an evil alliance, a deceiver, a murder, liar, a man, or sinister individual or any individual who denies the Person of Christ; and in denying the Son you deny the Father. Some are saying his appearance is still in the future. Others say he appeared long ago in the days of ancient Rome. The bible doesn’t give us any specifics as who and where the antichrist will come from. But does indicate that he is alive today and will play a vital role in the final events of Earth’s history.

Envision a world where nano sized robots can burrow themselves into your skin just by touching something or perhaps explode within you on command. Consider perchance, a world were humans have collective thoughts and can generate the processing power of a super computer. Sounds like something out of an awesome dream or a nightmare, depending on how you perceive it. These are just some of the ideas that are presented in transhumanism. Transhumanism can be explained as the belief that the human race can advance past its current physical and intellectual confines through the use of technology (Bostrom, 2014). In the current world we live in, we are limited by a number of factors, many of these include the scientific limitations and the properties of physics. On the other side of the limitations, lay the concepts of morality and ethical issues. Along with those concepts include how this technology correlates to our current world. In the novel The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, humans live alongside nanobots (and various other technology) in a transhumanist world. In this advanced world, the ideas of morality and ethics are still present within the human race. In many aspects, the morality and ethical issues that humans encounter today are reencountered in this transhuman world.

Taking a glance look at the wording of posthumanism portray a sense of an aftermath of humanism. The wording of posthumanism, notwithstanding, Lorimer (2009) states that posthumanism as a term is characterized by ambiguities and the fate of uncertainties that befall postmodernism is the same fate that bedeviled posthumanism. Lorimer defines posthumanism as “populist diagnosis of a new era, a new mode of critical inquiry that defines itself in relation to humanism, and a working through of the latter’s critical tradition’ (p.344). This definition by Lorimer is insufficient because it does not entail so much than merely defining posthumanism in a relative relationship to humanism. A more useful and practical explanation on posthumanism is the idea that it’s out of place to suggest that humans’ position is privileged and unique among other beings, including non-humans. Challenging this centrality of humans’ position has been the focus of the posthumanist agenda in human geography; inspired and advocated by scholars, including Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway (Latour, 2004 cited in Anderson, 2014). As succinctly echoed by Anderson, the critical goal of posthumanism is to challenge the deep-seated discourse of humanism that “separate and elevates the humans from the natural world” (Anderson, 2014, p.4). Castree and Nash cited in Anderson (2014) note that the term posthumanism has been used in two different ways: for historical analysis and for a theoretical framing in geography.