Posthumanism is a fairly complex idea to grasp, yet it takes
time to decipher the true meaning. I played with the idea that was explained in
the reading, “First, the post human view privileges informational pattern over
material instantiation, so that embodiment in a biological substrate is seen as
an accident of history rather than an in-evitability of life” (2). I perceived this quotation through a sense
that we as humans dislike the notion of new things in our life at random
moments, yet instead we enjoy a pattern that we can sustain everyday. Moreover,
when we have repetition in our daily lives and cease to make an error, we just
blow it off since the subject matter of the accident rarely happens. Thus the error
doesn’t crucially affect the way we live our lives since each of us has this
knowing or unknowing repetition of patterns that happen on a daily basis.
I believe that posthumanism is difficult to understand and yes it does take a long time to chop down it's true meaning, I myself took about 2 hours to read the text and about another 2 to respond in my post. I think that your interpretation is true, about the quote that you chose, that most humans much rather have the normality than constant change. If something were to throw us off balance from our daily routine, then it would just ruin our whole day and probably be the only thing we could think about. I don't know if you recieved the instructors email, but I think that you missed some of the assignment that we were supposed to do. But good interpretation of the quote I really like it.
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