@article{ART002903722},
author={Eung Jun Kim},
title={The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2022},
number={87},
pages={223-246},
doi={10.31310/HUM.087.08}
TY - JOUR
AU - Eung Jun Kim
TI - The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2022
VL - null
IS - 87
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 223
EP - 246
SN - 1598-8457
AB - This study starts from the premise that we have entered the post-human era in which the ideality of humanism-based human understanding is replaced by scientific and technological objectivity. In this premise, this study aims to examine the possibilities and limitations of the natural sciences, including neuroscience, on the premise of the emergence of the post-human self. On the one hand, the posthuman age of science and technology claims the annihilation of the self, but on the other hand, it talks about the transformational persistence of the self, not the extinction of the self. What is at issue is the danger of technological self-reconstruction that denies or ignores this viability. The self in the posthuman era presented by Thomas Metzinger perceives the world based on the human body. In other words, the brain's self-formation process works with the empirical world model that occurs through an interaction with the meaning components of human life. The ego, which exists while being influenced by and interacting with the external world, accepts all of its internal and external ontological environmental conditions, and at the same time generates a feeling of 'I' through it. Thus, the self can be ‘experienced’ but does not actually ‘exist’. This model asserts the transformation and relativity of the ego, unlike the absoluteness of the ego that traditional humanism maintains. From this point of view, this study accepts the extinction of the traditional humanism-based self, and at the same time attempts to examine the inherent dangers of the scientific and technological reprocessing of self-consciousness asserted by science and technology centralism.
KW - Posthuman;Self-Model;Self-Reconstruction;Artificial Subject;Thomas Metzinger
DO - 10.31310/HUM.087.08
ER -
Eung Jun Kim. (2022). The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self. Journal of Humanities, 87, 223-246.
Eung Jun Kim. 2022, "The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self", Journal of Humanities, no.87, pp.223-246. Available from: doi:10.31310/HUM.087.08
Eung Jun Kim "The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self" Journal of Humanities 87 pp.223-246 (2022) : 223.
Eung Jun Kim. The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self. 2022; 87 : 223-246. Available from: doi:10.31310/HUM.087.08
Eung Jun Kim. "The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self" Journal of Humanities no.87(2022) : 223-246.doi: 10.31310/HUM.087.08
Eung Jun Kim. The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self. Journal of Humanities, 87, 223-246. doi: 10.31310/HUM.087.08
Eung Jun Kim. The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self. Journal of Humanities. 2022; 87 223-246. doi: 10.31310/HUM.087.08
Eung Jun Kim. The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self. 2022; 87 : 223-246. Available from: doi:10.31310/HUM.087.08
Eung Jun Kim. "The Self-Model Theory of Thomas Metzinger and the Posthuman Self" Journal of Humanities no.87(2022) : 223-246.doi: 10.31310/HUM.087.08
