2026/01/27 by Sonia Baelo-Allué · 1 voice
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Cultural Studies and Postmodernism #Digital Media and Philosophy #Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
paper · doi:10.1163/9789004715516_028
openalex publication_date 2026/01/27 · openalex created_date 2026/02/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/03/20
This chapter explores cybernetic posthumanism, transhumanism and their changing visions on technology and techno-human assemblages resulting from the scientific advances of the fourth industrial revolution in which physical, biological and digital technologies converge. The chapter focuses on the emerging ethics resulting from the posthuman understanding of the self in which traditional binaries are challenged and a new sense of agency and identity results from the blurring of the human and non-human machine other. It also examines the different ways in which contemporary literature has engaged in the complex ethical debates and dilemmas that come with human enhancement, distributed cognition and artificial intelligence, and that emerge from the present understanding of posthuman identity.