The transhumanist movement has been hailed as optimistic and forward thinking in itsambition to “ascend humanity beyond its biological constraints” and bring it to the next stageof evolution. However, critics such as Nicholas Le Dévédec have claimed that the movementrepresents a reversal of the Enlightenment project of autonomy, despite claims otherwise. Inthis paper, we shall adopt the perspective of the moral philosophy of an Enlightenmentthinker important for the democratic thought of the era: Immanuel Kant. With an emphasis onKant’s conception of Dignity and the second formulation of the categorical imperative, thestudy shows that Kantianism is irreconcilable with transhumanism. The findings not onlyexpand upon Dévédec’s claims, but also emphasizes the potential of dignity as a concept indelineating the limits and use of enhancement technology.

Our bodies are arguably one of the most intimate things we will ever know. But the comfort of our own physical boundaries can be altered in various ways. In this analysis, we will look at how vision contributes to the sense of owning a body by analysing six abnormal conditions: the rubber hand illusion, phantom limbs, somatoparaphrenia, the body-swap illusion, out-of-body experiences, and heautoscopy. Examinations of these experimental or pathological conditions has granted a greater understanding of body-ownership. It was discovered that vision plays different modulatory roles, being more intricately involved in full-body ownership than in part-body ownership. Vision appears to be highly connected to self-location and first-person perspective, which both are contributing factors in projecting the sense of ownership to an external location. In part-body ownership, however, vision can be overruled by other senses, such as proprioception. Though it is still able to contribute to the illusion of projecting ownership and proprioceptive displacement to a rubber hand.

L’art et la science sont des voies parallèles de connaissance du monde, même si chacun utilise ses propres moyens. Ayant des approches différentes, les deux sont en quête de l’invisible, de ce qui se trouve au-delà de la première perception de la réalité, pour aboutir à la découverte de nouveaux phénomènes dans le réel. Les collaborations actuelles entre les artistes et les scientifiques m’ont conduite à la recherche de nouvelles approches de la réalité que ces projets communs puissent apporter à l’Humanité. En découvrant le domaine Art & Science, je me suis interrogée sur des démarches et des méthodes considérées depuis longtemps comme incompatibles, qui sont en train de converger en un langage commun se créant à la frontière de l’art et la science. Notre recherche se fonde sur plusieurs témoignages, comme des artistes, ainsi des scientifiques qui ont participé à des projets communs. A travers les différentes collaborations nous avons analysées, d’une part, les points de vue communs des artistes et des scientifiques, et d’autre part, les difficultés qu’ils ont dû surmonter pour aboutir au résultat voulu. Étant un domaine assez récent, Art & Science suscite beaucoup d’interrogations. Cette thèse se focalise sur l’essence et les buts des collaborations entre les artistes et les scientifiques afin de comprendre la spécificité des projets Art & Science et voir quel impact ces projets peuvent avoir sur la société. / Art and science are parallel ways to know the world, even if each one uses its own means. Having different approaches, these two ways are in search of the invisible, of what is beyond the first perception of reality, in order to discover new real phenomena. The current collaborations between artists and scientists have led me to investigate new approaches to reality, which these collaborative projects can bring to Humanity. Discovering the Art & Science field, I asked myself if the approaches and the methods that have been considered as incompatible for a long time are now converging into a common language being created at the frontier of art and science. Our research is based on several testimonials from artists and from scientists who participated in collaborative projects. Through the various collaborations, we analysed, on one hand, the shared viewpoints of artists and scientists, and, on the other hand, the difficulties they had to overcome to achieve the desired result. Art & Science being a recent field, many questions are raised. This thesis focuses on the essence and the aims of collaborations between artists and scientists in order to understand the specificity of Art & Science projects and to see how these projects may impact society.

Technologie en vogue pour les uns et domaine de recherche scientifique pour les autres, l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) constitue avant tout un projet idéologique : celui de façonner une créature artificielle « à l’image de l’Homme » (Breton, 1995). Toutefois, l’engouement médiatique face à l’IA retranscrit un débat exclusivement centré sur les possibilités qu’elle génère et les enjeux qu’elle soulève. Essentielle à la compréhension du phénomène social, l’étude sociologique de l’évolution de ce projet idéologique constitue un manque auquel ce mémoire entend combler. Il s’agit d’établir sur quelle conception de l’être humainhomme et de son intelligence s’est développé ce projet. Ce travail de recherche porte sur les représentations de l’intelligence véhiculées par les discours médiatiques centrés sur l’IA. Analyser les représentations sociales de l’intelligence dans une perspective constructiviste permet non seulement de mieux appréhender le phénomène social qu’est l’IA, mais nous éclaire par-dessus tout sur la vision de l’être humain qu’elle suppose. Nous tenterons de démontrer en quoi l’IA s’est développée sur la base d’une représentation réductrice de l’Hommeomme et de son intelligence, sans jamais que les fondements de cette assise ne soient évoqués tant ils sont dissimulés aux confins des représentations sociales. D’autant que ce « paupérisme épistémique » (Robillard, 2019 : 3) n’est pas sans effet : de réels choix scientifiques en découlent entraînant la mise sur le marché d’applications concrètes qui guident et transforment notre quotidien. C’est pourquoi une réflexion de fond est de rigueur. Ce mémoire rend ainsi compte des intérêts sociaux affectés par la rationalité instrumentale technocratique. / Popular technology for some and field of scientific research for others, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an ideological project above all: shaping an artificial creature "in the image of Man" (Breton, 1995). However, the media's enthusiasm for AI reflects a debate that focuses exclusively on the opportunities it generates and the issues it raises. Essential to the understanding of the social phenomenon, the sociological study of the evolution of this ideological project constitutes a gap that this thesis intends to fill. The aim is to establish on what conception of the human being and his intelligence this project has developed. This research work focuses on the representations of intelligence conveyed by media discourses focused on AI. Analyzing the social representations of intelligence from a constructivist perspective not only allows us to better understand the social phenomenon that is AI, but also sheds light on the vision of the human being that it implies. We will try to demonstrate how AI has been developed on the basis of a reductive representation of Man and his intelligence without ever mentioning the foundations hidden on the edges of social representations. Especially since this "epistemic pauperism" (Robillard, 2019: 3) is not without effect: real scientific choices result from it, leading to the launch of concrete applications that guide and transform our daily lives. That is why a thorough reflection is required. This thesis thus aims to point out social interests affected by technocratic instrumental rationality.

A short story collection containing nine stories and a 20,000-word novella. The stories are speculative fiction and they experiment with form.

This article critically analyses transhumanism, an ideological movement that advocates the radical biomodification of the human body in order to overcome our deficiencies and progress towards our next phase in evolution. Following previous criticism against the depoliticization within transhumanism, the article will aim to highlight the difficulty within transhumanism to balance the respect for diversity against the imperative for human enhancement. This paper then turns to the political theory of Hannah Arendt as the theoretical lens to highlight the source of this tension as the ideology’s reductive view of politics. The paper concludes on the difficulties reconciling diversity with human enhancement, as well as raising awareness of the possibility of conscious action in concert related to the use of biomodification technologies advocated by transhumanists.

This paper explores various technologies available to the modern composer and utilized in recent modern opera, providing creative approaches to producing aural, visual, and theatrical performance environments. It also explores my own use of digital technology in Transient Delete. Transient Delete is a digital miniature-opera that explores different aspects of a community of post-human cyborgs. The story follows Iméra, a newly converted cyborg as she acclimates herself to this new cybernetic existence. During this process she meets several other cybernetic entities that are there to help guide her through her metamorphosis.

in English My thesis follows up a potential influence of transhumanism on reflexive planning of people according to a Czech transhumanist community in regard of Person-In-Enviroment theory and postmodern changes in the society. A conceptual part contains chapters about transhumanism, areas that transhumanism focuses on, H+ technologies, potential, community and reflexive planning. In a framework of a qualitative research, my data were gathered using semi-structured interviews on topics reflexivity of an human actor, decision making, work with information, power, existential dimension of life and sorrow and anxiety related to life changes and loses. According to the obtained tata the biggest potential for reflexive planning can be found in examining possibilities of using artificial inteligence, collective consciousness and virtual hedonism, all that with regart to necessity of fight for human rights and democracy and economical breakthrough, wich could result in removal of social inequality.

Det här examensarbetet speglar tankar och erfarenheter genom posthumanistisk och transhumanistisk teori i hur vi uppfattar klassrummet som pedagogiskt rum, specifikt kring de praktiskt estetiska ämnena och tillhörande undervisning. Undersökningen ämnar bearbeta elevers uppfattning kring det rumsliga i eftermälet av en tid där det fysiska har fått ge plats för det digitala under covid-19 pandemin. Är klassrummet ett pedagogiskt rum, som är en fysisk plats som upprätthålls genom vår närvaro, eller är det en socialkonstruktivistisk överenskommelse som vi kan skifta mellan det fysiska och icke-fysiska? Genom att åberopa tankegångar från allt mellan Foucault, Harraway och Claire Bishop ämnar arbetet synliggöra elevens perspektiv kring hur undervisning har uppfattats, tillgodogjorts och senare bedömts utifrån distansundervisningens parametrar. Genom att kombinera kvalitativa undersökningsmetoder såsom ideografisk etnografi, A/r/ tography och bildelicitering, ställer studien elever inför frågeställningen som ett gestaltandeproblem. Detta dels för att kunna frambringa ett tydligt empiriskt material i form av semiotiskt bildspråk, dels för att producera kvalitativa data som i förlängning kan formuleras och kontextualiseras till uppsatsen; men även ett gestaltande arbete. Gestaltningen har skett parallellt och kan och ska tolkas som ett direkt kommunikativt sätt att kontextualisera elevernas och författarens uppfattning kring det pedagogiska rummet. Relevansen för det bildpedagogiska fältet kan således direkt tolkas genom ett elev- och lärarperspektiv. Ett mångfacetterat sätt att se på en relativt enkel frågeställning - Hur uppfattar elever det fysiska rummet, i eftermälet av en pandemi där distansundervisning har dominerat.    Resultatet går av att avläsa i empirin som eleverna har frambringat och senare tolkats i en gestaltning som speglar två utbildningar genom pandemin - Författaren och deltagarnas.

В современном обществе остро встают моральные проблемы, связанные с деятельностью искусственного интеллекта и других интеллектуальных систем. В работе исследуются проблемы, связанные с влиянием сильного искусственного интеллекта на человеческое общество: проблемы определения прав и свобод искусственных когнитивных единиц, взаимодействия человека и постчеловека, а также этические проблемы, потенциально возникающие при создании ИИ. Объектом исследования является философское течение постгуманизм. Предметом исследования является морально-этическая составляющая подраздела постгуманизма под названием эссенциокогнитивизм. Целью является изучение моральных принципов сильного искусственного интеллекта и других интеллектуальных агентов, или, если точнее, постчеловечества, преломленное сквозь призму морально-этических учений прошлого и современности. Методами исследования являются сравнение с уже существующими моральными системами, анализ актуальных морально-нравственных концепций, конструирование (дизайн) и прогнозирование хода развития постгуманистической концепции. Актуальность представленного исследования основана на росте внимания к идеям научно-технического прогресса и технологической сингулярности, актуализации этических проблем слабого искусственного интеллекта, возникновении новых научных открытий, имеющих неоднозначное значение для человечества. В результате исследования установлено, что постчеловечество и ИИ способны положительно повлиять на жизнь человечества, поэтому их возникновение представляется отличной возможностью решить глобальные проблемы, стоящие перед человечеством уже сейчас. / In modern society, the moral problems associated with the activities of artificial intelligence and other intellectual systems are acute. The paper examines the problems associated with the influence of strong artificial intelligence on human society: the problem of determining the rights and freedoms of artificial cognitive units, the interaction between man and postman, as well as ethical problems that potentially arise when creating AI. The object of the research is the philosophical course of posthumanism. The subject of the research is the moral and ethical component of posthumanism subsection called essentiocognitivism. The goal is to study the moral principles of strong artificial intelligence and other intellectual agents, or, more precisely, post-humanity, refracted through the prism of the moral and ethical teachings of the past and present. The research methods are comparison with already existing moral systems, analysis of current moral and ethical concepts, design and forecasting the course of development of the post humanistic concept. The relevance of the presented research is based on the growth of attention to the ideas of scientific and technological progress and technological singularity, the updating of the ethical problems of weak artificial intelligence, the emergence of new scientific discoveries that have ambiguous significance for humanity. As the result of the research it was established that post-humanity and the AI have positively effect on the life of mankind, therefore, their appearance is an excellent opportunity to solve global problems facing humanity now.