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Culture determines a crossbreeding of the human system, not a disjunction of man from the nonhuman Every human act, therefore, causes deficiency and crossbreeding, the opposite of selfsufficiency the autopoiesis of Maturanian memory and purification. Posthuman theories and critical issues underlying an anthropological mutation Homo videns the modification of human minds Roberto Siconolfi Webinar Posthuman thought and essentialism the problem Another philosophical scientific problem to which posthuman thought seeks to respond , a problem of anthropocentric, humanist and, in our opinion, modern derivation, is essentialism . Anthropocentrism, humanism, and its dichotomous slant, tends to diverge, or rather to distill using an alchemical language also dear.
To the Renaissance people, also accused by Marchesini, the pure from the impure, in practice the essence from substance. Conversely, for Marchesini, Darwinism and the thought of complexity undermine this paradigm, accepting becoming as the proper motion of nature, which should no Web Development Services longer be seen as a fixed backdrop to be preserved, much less exploited at will. Acceptance of becoming, also accepting the possibility of overcoming the limit, going beyond the socalled sin of hubris , accepting a state of permanent openness to otherness, in accordance with the guidelines that move natural entities, not opposing them a principle that replaces that of hubris.
With its superstition of inviolability, and measuring the impact that technologies have in safeguarding otherness . Safeguarding otherness which becomes the new founding principle that replaces hubris . Identity, therefore, the Self, the essence loses its centrality, its need to extrapolate from the world, for Marchesini as for other posthumanist intellectuals – see N. Katherine Hayles. The center of cohesion no longer exists, overcoming the individuality so dear to anthropocentric humanism and opening up to multividual possibilities that we will later clarify in a more definitive way. Posthuman thought between evolutionism and neuroscience the basis Darwinism constitutes one of the cornerstones.
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