Augmented Reality Learning Environments – A posthuman pedagogy Although philosophical idealists will argue that there is no such thing as a common reality, in everyday practice we have chosen to believe in one. Through our senses and communications, we live in a shared reality that we refer to as the real world, but by degrees, [...]
I’ve spent a fascinating week considering what it means to be posthuman. This began with my post at the end of last week on the differences between the cyborg and the posthuman (lifestream: 13.11.2011 #1), in which I discuss the notion of a distributed consciousness; and this has since informed some thoughts on the emergence [...]
I began week eight by asking the question, are we already posthuman (lifestream: 07.11.2011, #1)? In many ways, we depend on tools like a mobile phone as a type of cognitive prosthesis, an extra layer of memory which grants us an increased ability or processing power than our (basic?) organic minds could otherwise achieve. I [...]
Although the concept of posthumanism has many interpretations, it is primarily considered as an evolutionary change from the human condition to something similar but enhanced in some way. Generally this means enhancement through the application of some digital or mechanical prosthesis but it can also refer to genetic manipulation, chemical enhancement and various other methods [...]