Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
The posthuman promise to unite humans and machines has all the signs of a vastly influential religious movement, born of a widespread technophilia. Meanwhile, our migration into cyberspace and mechanistic approach to existence are generating a number of psychological maladies. For the second time in recent history, a rupture in the psyche-world relationship compels us to bring more consciousness to our use of technology. This presentation exposes the spiritual crisis behind posthumanism, and explores the attempt to exchange the archetypal basis of mind for a computational intelligence. It shows how algorithms and augmentation are leaving parts of the soul to atrophy. Countering these trends will require a co-creative way forward, wherein future design merges with natural patterning and virtual worlds account for deeply human realities.
The posthuman promise to unite humans and machines has all the signs of a vastly influential religious movement, born of a widespread technophilia. Meanwhile, our migration into cyberspace and mechanistic approach to existence are generating a number of psychological maladies. For the second time in recent history, a rupture in the psyche-world relationship compels us to bring more consciousness to our use of technology. This presentation exposes the spiritual crisis behind posthumanism, and explores the attempt to exchange the archetypal basis of mind for a computational intelligence. It shows how algorithms and augmentation are leaving parts of the soul to atrophy. Countering these trends will require a co-creative way forward, wherein future design merges with natural patterning and virtual worlds account for deeply human realities.
