{"id":16930,"date":"2015-09-05T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/controversial-philosopher-says-man-and-machine-will-fuse-into-one-being"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:19","slug":"controversial-philosopher-says-man-and-machine-will-fuse-into-one-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/controversial-philosopher-says-man-and-machine-will-fuse-into-one-being","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Philosopher Says Man And Machine Will Fuse Into One Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controversial-philosopher-says-man-and-machine-will-fuse-into-one-being.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human being \u2014 especially in so-called \u201cadvanced civilizations\u201d \u2014 is the animal that molds itself into its own pet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Peter Sloterdijk is Germany\u2019s most controversial thinker and media theorist. He has dared to challenge long-established divisions in traditional philosophy of body and soul, subject and object, culture and nature. His 1999 lecture on \u201cRegulations for the Human Park,\u201d in which he argued that genetic engineering was a continuation of human striving for self-creation, stirred up a tempest in a country known for Nazi eugenics. At the same time, he himself has concluded that \u201cthe taming of man has failed\u201d as civilization\u2019s potential for barbarism has grown ever greater. His seminal books include \u201cCritique of Cynical Reason\u201d and his trilogy, \u201cSpheres.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a recent Berggruen Center on Philosophy and Culture symposium on humans and technology at Cambridge University\u2019s St. John\u2019s School of Divinity, The WorldPost discussed with Sloterdijk the end of borders between humans and technology, the cloud, singularity and identity in the age of globalization.<\/p>\n<p>For years now, you have been arguing that a new type of being was coming into existence, as the human species fuses with its technological prosthetics \u2014 \u201canthropo-technology.\u201d In this new being, man and machine are becoming one integrated, operative system linked by information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/peter-sloterdijk-man-machine-interview_55e37927e4b0aec9f3539a06?utm_content=buffer7e43d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human being \u2014 especially in so-called \u201cadvanced civilizations\u201d \u2014 is the animal that molds itself into its own pet. Peter Sloterdijk is Germany\u2019s most controversial thinker and media theorist. He has dared to challenge long-established divisions in traditional philosophy of body and soul, subject and object, culture and nature. His 1999 lecture on \u201cRegulations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,38,412,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69629,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16930\/revisions\/69629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}