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Benjamin Ross Hayden     Mon, Jun 25, 2012  Permanent link
When remote places become easily available our inner circuitry will adapt to a new mode of perception, one in which the distinction between that which is ‘here’ and that which is ‘there’ slowly evaporates.

-Wildcat

...and dissolving the doorway of diodes.

This merger with VR optics hosting networked integrations.
As techno-optimists, =technologies must be subjected to pro-active scrutiny, reciprocal accountability. Fore-bearing the next epoch, fictionalizing the utopia and dystopia of consequence brought with the next wave...

At what point are we post-human as techno-shamens?

Wildcat     Thu, Jun 28, 2012  Permanent link
The point at which we actually become posthuman Technoshamans I see as closely resembling the Turing test as originally devised. Simply put the point of transition can be represented by the statement ‘not knowing the difference’.
As long as we can tell the difference, the technology is not good enough and thus to follow A.C.Clark is not magic. But if and when the tech is good enough and the distinction can no longer be made to an extent that is relevant and immediate the threshold has been passed and we become ipso facto, posthuman techno-shaman.

From a different perspective I could use the concept of codes and coding, when the code, the coding and intersubjective codification is totally immersive and transparent, the point has been reached.

Thanks for the pertinent comment.