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P R O J E C THUMAN ENHANCEMENT

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Natasha Vita-MorePhD Res, Univ. PlymouthBoard of Directors, [email protected]


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The project began in the late 1990s with designs for a posthuman prototype. From 2004 to 2008, the project developed a theory of human enhancement linking available information on a scientific, technological and philosophical approach to human futures. From 2008 to the 2010, the project has been dealing with a central issue for the near-term—staying alive.


1.8 deaths per second worldwide, meaning that there are over 100 deaths per minute. There are over 150,000 deaths per day and over 55 million deaths per year.

21.6 deaths every 12 seconds

PREDICAMENT

The predicament human enhancement faces is mostly behavioral–what we desire and what is feasible. Much of this has to do with what we want to control and why we need to control it.

For human enhancement, the control factor is to stay alive. One way we can do this is by changing what is considered as the normal human condition. For those opposed to enhancement, the control factor is to die. One way they can do this is to restrain our condition by keeping disease alive.

DESIGN

Science & Technology

Marketing/Consumers

Society & Beliefs

Ethics &Biopolitics

FearActivism

HopeAnxiety

Design/Arts & Sciences

NBIC+AI/AGIRobotics

NarrativesPhilosophy

SpiritualityReligion

Visuals

Symbols

Culture Culture

VirtualitySimulationBio-Synthetics

Whole brain emulationDisembodied cognitionconnective intelligence

PRACTICESCIENCE

Cognition Quotient

BRAIN

BEHAVIOR

BODY

Plasticity, Protection, Preservation

Flexibility, Strength, Disease Control

Perception, Reflexivity, Connectivity

The interrelationship of brain, body and behavior

IDEA

METHOD

MEANS

Stay alive

Increase Cognition Quotient

Second-order enhancement cybernetics.

The user-agent-observer guides the enhanced attributes of its own system.

• Feedback loop• Adaptation • Decision assist• Error correction• Multiple viewpoints• Prosthetic neo-cortex

plasticity

softwareWearable or in-system• experience memory• persona recordation• relay between avatars

Brain system

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Designer,Frog Design

Designer,Pouvan Mokhtarani

Designer,Mikhail St-Denis

Designer, QIS Design

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Need to know

Self-tracking systems / well-being behavior health risks

What to know

How to know

Designers, Sajid Sadi and Marcelo CoelhoMEMTABLE

Designers, Seth Hunter with Jenny Chan, Katie Harrington, Emily Zhao, Alexander Milouchev, and Michael Kuo

MEMTABLE

Technology

Design Praxis

human-technologyintegration

Evolution

Evolution

HUMAN ENHANCEMENTCybernetics Self-directed

Computer Media NBIC Media

human-futuresconceptualization

HUMANENHANCEMENT

design process practicality of enhancement In

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cyborg transhuman posthumanHu[man]-machine

Philosophy

Identity

FuturesScenarios

Evolution

Existence

Metaphysics

Biopolitics

Functionalism

Future StudiesCybernetics

Transhumanism

Ethics

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HumanEnhancement

Historical

DesignPractices

Philosophyand Theory

FutureScenarios

Technologies

Cybernetics: Establishing a Framework of Human Enhancement

Historical Praxis of Emerging field of Heds Regeneration of Personal Existence as a foundation Existence over space and time Sciences: Hard and Soft

Human Enhancement as a Field

Locating Evidence of HE in arts Assessment of HCI, Body Art, Robotics,

Conceptual Art, Wearables, Performance Art, Prosthetics, Biological Art

Comparisons between artistic fields which engage transdisciplinary media to produce full concept

Defining human enhancement Relationship to cybernetics Free Will, Survival and Evolution Regeneration of personal existence Existence over space and time

Human Enhancement within Practices

Media of human enhancement – NBIC+ Links between Science, Technology and Art

Human Enhancement Media

Philosophies and Theories of Human Futures

Stemming out of Cybernetics Stemming from Transhumanism Stemming from Posthumanism Analyzing the Cyborg, Transhuman, Posthuman

Designing a Field

Investigating Experts within fields of NBIC+ Links to artistic practice and theory Future Scenarios of Human Enhancement Media


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Natasha Vita-MorePhD Res, Univ. PlymouthBoard of Directors, [email protected]


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