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QUARANTINE
SUBJUR - 018:
...post humanism about, roughly?
INFRACTIONATE:
Good question.
In essence, 'post human' is to exist in concert with technology to the point where one can no longer be considered traditionally human.
QS.018:
Hmm
INF:
It is the manifestation of our minds designs to replace the body.
QS.018:
"I'm going to the woods to be at one with nature."
"Oh really? How are you getting there?"
"By automobile. You can contact me on my cellular phone if you want."
INF:
Ah precisely.
QS.018:
"One with nature... right"
So have you any ideas?
INF:
When our urgency to evolve was replaced with our ability to manufacture tools, even those as simple as a ladder or a knife, we took the first steps as a race towards post humanism.
QS.018:
Indeed.
INF:
Some suggest that it is a trans human ideal that has not yet been accomplished.
QS.018:
We are still evolving though...
a little bit.
INF:
But i look at a man, his skin is pasty because he is inside buildings all day with artificial light, he is overweight because he earns his living by interfacing with a computer all day, his failing eyesight is corrected by glasses, his health is poor because fresh food is rare, he suffers anxiety due to living in a city of stacked apartments housing millions of people and the medication and surgeries his doctor provides keeps him living on when nature would have seen him perish long ago.
QS.018:
Aha, it sounds like you'd like reading Desmond Morris "The Naked Ape"
INF:
Perhaps he is what people most often imagine when thinking of the human, but to a man of some 500 years ago he must seem quite alien. He has become the norm and in doing so changed the definition of human. Perhaps our advancement must reach a certain pace before a pot human move can be made. Ultimately it is when a human can move into the place beyond humanism in the span of one lifetime that post humanism becomes a reality. At the end of the day, you and I still disrobe and disconnect to sleep as our ancestors did. Perhaps that will be the sign.
QS.018:
Alright, so this project of yours.
INF:
Oh and he's listening to motivational self-help talks through headphones whilst reading printed type and checking stocks on his pocket-computer. Stock themselves are a post human concept, even money when one looks carefully enough. Transferring life into a physical object to be collected and expended is one of the greatest horrors of mankind through which men have become immortal and at the same time felt their years stolen away.
QS.018:
A poignant sentiment
Are you thinking of an ancient man and a modern man meeting to converse?
INF:
No I'm thinking that two friends discuss what it is to be post human.
QS.018:
Oh right, okay.
INF:
And then the demonstration will support said conversation.
QS.018:
So would you like me to help by having a conversation with you? You know I can't be seen to have any substantial input.
INF:
Well we're already having the conversation.
Such is the miracle of my work.
QS.018:
That's what I thought...
sneaky bugger
INF:
I would like to use your equipment and insight for the project though.
Do you have any time?
QS.018:
I don't know, they keep me fairly busy.
How soon do you have to do it by?
INF:
I'd like to do it fairly soon.
Most of the work is going to be in post-production control.
QS.018:
well I have tomorrow to myself, but I'm seeing Dr. Laur soon, after that I'll be taken directly to the test sight.
INF:
The test sight...
Don't die now.
Someone died there last year.
QS.018:
I'll try not to DIE.
INF:
Good.
Then who would I talk to?
QS.018:
Gee, that's a bit morbid.
I'm going to meet some of the greatest people here and have fun.
INF:
I'm just saying...
have responsible fun.
I know what these sweeps are like.
They are off the wall.
QS.018:
Sure, I'll keep it in mind...
Thanks.
INF:
Just remember, you don't have to take risks to impress people.
INF:
Hmm this is off topic now, i don't think i can use this.
QS.018:
So is everyone post human?
Or no-one?
INF:
Another excellent question.
QS.018:
Are there some tribes who might be classified as human still?
INF:
Due to the contradictory nature of the concept we are and we are not.
Perhaps we are more human than ever before. Each advancement in technology is not embraced but rather rejected and finally hesitantly tolerated.
And although we use technology to live our lives, the lives we lead are ultimately longer with a better overall quality of health.
QS.018:
I think technology of portable art, freedom of information and modes of transport have changed the world considerably in not much time at all.
INF:
Perhaps then, post humanism is to draw technology ever-closer to the mind. Through advancing interfaces, to eliminate the 'middle-man' that is the human body altogether.
QS.018:
Hmm, maybe better health, but better lives?
...
Happier?
INF:
I'm happier
QS.018:
Less stressful?
INF:
People talk about the stresses of the modern world, but were they really so happy and carefree during depressions and wars? or when 90% of the populous are peasants or slaves?
QS.018:
The millions of decisions that we have to make were either incomprehensible or made for them.
INF:
Freedom of information is a good point though, we have created machines that can communicate any information over any distance. the closer our minds are linked to these devices the closer we become to everyone else. The Internet and mobile phones are good examples of this phenomenon. Suddenly it's not so difficult to imagine how the Borg hive mind could come about.
QS.018:
What about when all we had to worry about was killing a pig and gathering some berries?
Escaping the big-ass bear and fucking the nearest female when it was a good time (anytime).
INF:
dying from the simplest injuries, lack of food in winter, constant fighting for dominance and being raped?
QS.018:
Yeah, but you didn't have to deal with telemarketers.
INF:
Still it is interesting that there is a link between technology and stress.
The more intimately we are acquainted with these foreign machines the more vulnerable we become to being accessed through them.
Fry had dreams of Light-speed briefs.
QS.018:
I think with freedom of information it is interesting. Now everyone thinks they know everything because of the news and their social groups and the Internet.
It creates an illusion for them, which hides the bad things that happen in the world which aren't covered by video cameras and uploaded.
Before that, people just heard snippets and imagined the things happening elsewhere in the world, but it was their best guess.
INF:
so is a lesser control on content which encourages people to feel educated, whilst this may not be the case at all?
Nations have had various levels of trust for their media but now we have a global media market to choose from.
The choice is no longer whether to listen or not, but who to listen too.
QS.018:
And if someone said, "hey, shit is going down in India, who's up for it" they might take a voyage to investigate rather than just sitting at their designer coffee tables and drinking soy-chai-lattes and talking with their friends.
INF:
A the soy-chai-latte. A metaphor for a time of ignorance that seems like a dream of the ideal given our current situation.
QS.018:
For some people it is still about access, people in remote parts of the world.
INF:
I think the phenomenon of Anonymous is an interesting event in cyberspace.
QS.018:
Who?
INF:
A group/organisation with no leader, no physical address, no organisation and yet capable of not only moving online with a will and a unified identity of purpose, but also manifesting physically at every location around the world as proven in the rallies that stimulated a global reaction to Scientology. They are like an organism, each cell unaware of it's part. Grouped together through a shared attitude and behaviour.
QS.018:
Ah right.
That thing.
Are you recording any of this?
INF:
No.
But someone, or something, else is...