Paper Details

Name: Neha Soi
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 22-26

One of the greatest preoccupations of mankind has been the development of machines or mechanized systems which can aid, and eventually substitute human effort. Even mythologies offer instances of episodes like the building of Noah’s ark to assist in the preservation of the world as it is. The Roman abacus, which dates back to 2400 BC, the Antikythera mechanism, discovered in the wreckage near Greece, belonging to 150-100 BC, the astrolabe of the 1st or 2nd century BC, all point towards the earliest efforts of human beings to create machines which can complete tasks with accuracy and intelligence.
Intelligence, which was an essential feature marking distinction between animals and homo sapiens, has been constantly reproduced mechanically and artificially. Emulating God, human beings have constantly been involved with the task of creating intelligence. Just as man was created in the image of God, devices have been developed in the image of Man. With reference to the posthumanist (and subsequently transhumanist) ideologies, the current paper attempts to find the place of the human being within the paradigm of the internet revolution and the development of the so-perceived human-substituting computational devices.