How Katherine Hayles Explained the Configuration of Posthuman Conditions

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Hayles, N. Katherine’s book “How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics” (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999) examines and explains about the configuration of posthuman conditions. The author begins by talking about her dream regarding robotics where she describes the possibilities of downloading the human consciousness into a computer. She explains that the idea of separating intelligence from the body started as early as 1950, and some films such as the Star Trek have adopted this idea.
I believe that it is possible to have the human conscious transferred into an informational pattern. This is because information has been treated as an essential core of the body by molecular biology — additionally, scientists in computational biology and information technologies. The author has eva...