Presentation Title
Between Humans
Major Field of Study
Liberal studies
Location
Dominican University of California (online)
Start Date
19-6-2021 9:00 AM
End Date
19-6-2021 10:20 AM
Abstract
The coexistence of humans with new forms of intelligences, ‘new form of life’, urges the question: What makes a human, human? What are the fundamental characteristics defining humankind? In the future we already experience, would machines help or threaten humanity? Scientific/technological enhancement may be conducive to a correlated simplification of the human being, aiming to “fit” better within that future. In dialogue with Aristotle, philosophers and writers, we draw a portrait of humanity as a mosaic of biology and sense of existence, through the complexity that builds us, that calls for being preserved, and which could be already missed.
Between Humans
Dominican University of California (online)
The coexistence of humans with new forms of intelligences, ‘new form of life’, urges the question: What makes a human, human? What are the fundamental characteristics defining humankind? In the future we already experience, would machines help or threaten humanity? Scientific/technological enhancement may be conducive to a correlated simplification of the human being, aiming to “fit” better within that future. In dialogue with Aristotle, philosophers and writers, we draw a portrait of humanity as a mosaic of biology and sense of existence, through the complexity that builds us, that calls for being preserved, and which could be already missed.
Presenter Biography
Daniela Raimondo graduated in Philosophy at University of Turin, with a thesis on the narration of evil and literature in the Luigi Pareyson’s philosophy. Presently, she research the impact of childhood in the construction of the self, at the Simon Fraser University Liberal Studies, in Vancouver. Areas of her interest are: the Hermeneutics use of the Myth, the relation between humanistic and scientific approach and Education.