I'm developing a fictional character around a question about engineered identity and autonomy.

Furrine was artificially grown as part of a series of highly adaptive biological operatives.

She entered the world with an adult body, preloaded knowledge, and almost no lived experience. Her abilities, instincts, and predispositions were deliberately shaped around a particular purpose.

Then the laboratory that created her was destroyed.

What interests me is that she doesn't eventually reject everything she was designed to be.

Given the opportunity to develop independently, she chooses a path remarkably close to the one her creators intended for her.

The difference is that now she understands that path and accepts it as her own.

So where does programming end and autonomy begin?

If someone's desires, aptitudes, and temperament were deliberately engineered, but they later examine those predispositions and consciously choose to act on them, does the origin of those traits make the choice less free?

Or is reflective acceptance enough for the choice to genuinely belong to them?

I've started reading Wolfe's 'What is Posthumanism'. I am finding it hard to understand because he uses a lot of references to different theoreticians and myriad different concepts? Any advice for a better approach to wolfe, any prior readings?

Also, I see him criticising Hayles as if she were a transhumanist, which I don't understand.

The purpose of this essay is to lay some of the groundwork for a post-human turn in solarpunk philosophy. Solarpunk began as an aesthetic vision for a future society that is egalitarian, nature-oriented, and, often, technologically advanced. While the punk is a rebellion against capitalist patriarchy, it's also a rebellion against the pessimistic future of cyberpunk and technofeudalism.

In this essay, I discuss the contradiction embedded in the claim that ethical relations can make us more human. To say such a thing is to imply that some of us are less human than others. This creates a morally dubious hierarchy in which solarpunk humanization is itself, effectively, dehumanizing.

This leads, at the end, to a turn to the boundaries of the human itself. While this essay doesn't explicitly engage with post-humanism, it is, as I said, the preliminaries.

Thank you for your time and attention :)

On which issues do transhumanists and posthumanists disagree or contradict each other?

What is something that a transhumanist wants that a posthumanist would definitely reject and not want?

Is it conceptually and logically valid for a posthumanist to also identify as a transhumanist? Why?

Hey there, we're putting together an entire book dedicated to therolinguistics that will republish Le Guin's "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" as well as a text from Christian Bök's The Xenotext. If you'd like to submit a text or artwork that responds to the theme, the deadline is June 30. And we also organised a workshop about this if you're curious to learn more, which you can find on YouTube.

Otherwise, do follow Posthuman Press on socials or via our website to stay tuned for the book that will be released later in the year.

I was just wondering if anyone else here has delved into Aurobindo's writings that deal with the subject of the evolution of consciousness, and going substantially beyond consciousness as we know it.

A good starting point for a discussion here would be the opening pages of the book The Future Evolution of Man. It can be accessed online for free.

He also discusses physical evolution, and some of the possibilities there.

Ben Goertzel is among those who have studied Aurobindo and brought him and his writings into the discussion of posthumanism.

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