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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Unonscious vs. Conscious
“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams” (p. 183). This quote from Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World takes place when the narrator from The End … Continue reading
Humans Controlling Rats with Thoughts
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/162678-harvard-creates-brain-to-brain-interface-allows-humans-to-control-other-animals-with-thoughts-alone The subject of the article above is a study that was conducted at Harvard University in an attempt to allow the human brain to control an animal with thought. Researchers at Harvard used brain-to-brain Interface to connect to a rat. The … Continue reading
The Right-Left Dichotomy
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World employs the use of parallels, some similar and some contrasting, in order to explore the divide between exterior physical world of the body and the interior conscious world of the mind. … Continue reading
Unflattening in science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOCaacO8wus This video is interesting in that it uses the core concept of Unflattening, breaking down a medium into its composite parts to analyse and comprehend it more fully, and applies it to life. Using an objective, scientific standpoint, the … Continue reading
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Genetic Modification of Animals
The genetic modification of animals is nothing new…in fact we have been doing this as humans since the beginning of our evolution – domesticating wolves into dogs for our own benefit. While we weren’t specifically splicing genes in labs back … Continue reading
Animal Enhancement Progress
The idea of cybernetically enhancing animals is to me morally challenging, since animals cannot give their consent. Not only that but animal experimentation can be dangerous, as witnessed in We3. Nonetheless animal experimentation using enhancements has begun. One element of … Continue reading
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NYT: Why I love Comics
After discussing We3 and Unflattening in class, I remembered there was a similar ode to comics in the NYT’s book review section. While not necessarily a doctoral dissertation on the medium, Ware offers a more personal view on the positives … Continue reading
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Taking Advantages of Animals’ Biology
http://www.cracked.com/article_19191_7-bizarre-advances-in-animal-cyborg-technology.html This article is highly relevant to our discussions of animals being used and manipulated for the benefit of humans. In We3, the dog, cat, and rabbit are given exo-suits that weaponizes them and their instinctual behaviors in order to … Continue reading
The Threat of the Thinking Robot
Human culture is filled to the brim with a deep fear of sentience that isn’t ours. Descartes’ attempts to mechanize animals reminds me of two things that persist in film. The characterization of animals are cold, calculating killing machines is … Continue reading
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Humans, animals, and the hierarchy of reason
In Rene Descartes Animals as Machines, Descartes claims that animals “have no reason at all, and that it is nature which acts in them according to the disposition of their organs, just as a clock, which is only composed of … Continue reading
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