simulo reviewed How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles
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3 stars
The "upload your consciousness to a computer" is a posthuman idea: Instead of seeing people as mind inside a body and as possessing a body, the "posthuman" is data and thus can be understood and dealt with like computer programs.
The book draws on a wide range of sources including literature, cybernetics and cognitive science. The reading difficulty is OK: It is not easy, but it does not drown the reader in self-invented terms nor are the sentences super long and intertwined – for such a postmodern topic it's pretty accessible.
