Víscera, vivencia y dispositivo. Fenomenología y transhumanismo Pablo Posada Varela

Abstract

If we ought to consider transhumanism and ponder its phenomenological significance, we shall first reflect on borders in its broader sense, which also happens to be its most concrete signification: the border or the frontier among the living beings in general, then by the animals and, finally, in the precise case of humain beings. These two last instances show a fundamental non-coincidence between an inner space or interiority that we shall call “visceral”, and a “transcendental” interiority. Such a non-coincident dependence between the transcendental and the visceral enhances dramatically the complexity of the border (and, consequently, the relations between the inner and the outer environment) both by the animals and by the human beings. The concept of transcendantal facticity gathers a double “interiority”: a visceral and a transcendental one. Both are in a relation of not-complete dependence. Starting from this phenomenological fact, we examine the potential effects that the technique (and its many technological prothesis) has on the immanence of sense as an embodied sense in the making. We point out a progressive disappearance of the transcendental interior, boosted by the growing exteriorization of the constitutive operativity. The whole process comes to an algorithmically upgraded but rootless kinesthetic system that hampers the transcendantal inside, unsettling the serenity of its basic synesthesia