{"id":647,"date":"2015-03-18T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=647"},"modified":"2015-03-18T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:11:26","slug":"the-human-condition-without-the-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/18\/the-human-condition-without-the-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Condition without the Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In <em>Augmented Memory, Digital Life, and Computers that Promise to Remember Everything,<\/em>\u00a0Isabel Peterson examines the implications of self-tracking to the point where you are able to recall everything that you see, hear, read write or feel. Her analysis suggests that this new form of the quantified self negates the fundamental purpose of human memory.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we expect that human memory exists to store rather than generate reality, then humans are for information and not the other way round, a rheto\u00adric that ultimately betrays posthuman conditions in these subtle as\u00adsumptions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Humanists would suggest that information is for humans to learn, use and wrestle with.\u00a0What happens to our humanity when we exist and experience simply to recall? Is an emotion still an emotion\u00a0when\u00a0we only remember having it, not\u00a0the way it\u00a0actually felt? As this idea progresses, the functionality\u00a0of the human brain diminishes and we approach a robotic society where we <em>do<\/em> rather than <em>feel<\/em> and <em>analyze<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This begs the question that we asked\u00a0at the end of class: <em>do we need a computer to tell us\u00a0how we feel?<\/em>\u00a0As one student asked, do I need my tinder app to tell me if I am having a good time on a date? I would argue that if we do not already know these things, then ultimately, how we feel does not matter. The readings highlight the argument that\u00a0there is intrinsic value in the existence of the record for posterity. However, at this point the human condition is no longer worth reflecting on. What is the human\u00a0condition\u00a0without\u00a0the humanity that is evident\u00a0in our emotions, conflicts and questions?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Augmented Memory, Digital Life, and Computers that Promise to Remember Everything,\u00a0Isabel Peterson examines the implications of self-tracking to the point where you are able to recall everything that you see, hear, read write or feel. Her analysis suggests that this new form of the quantified self negates the fundamental purpose of human memory. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/18\/the-human-condition-without-the-humanity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Human Condition without the Humanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-4","category-responders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}