11/17/2008

Posthumanism à la Chabad

Chabad.org offers up an not-really-posthumanist argument in one writer's attempt to engage with the "Can You Prove You're Not a Machine?" question:

we can't *prove* we're not machines ---> wait a second, we do operate kind of like machines ---> ............
----> but we're just *not* machines, we can't be ---> the difference between people and machines is the possibility for embracing God and meaning ---> you should embrace God and look for meaning and holiness in everyday life.

An argument with slightly fewer open spaces but more open questions might be:
we can't *prove* we're not machines ---> wait a second, we do operate kind of like machines ---> but aren't meaning, and God, and consciousness what make us human? ---> then ...????????


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