It has been a long time since humans have been inhabiting this planet. Coming from an extended lineage of cells, matter, and life (none of which we would recognize as synthetic), the species has been mostly surrounded by organic phenomena.
No artificial light, no electricity, no computers. Still, in the past decades, we’ve been faced with a stream of changes that have been challenging our archetypes.
Instead of watching the sun go down, we face a never-ending stream of information. We produce, we consume. We are driven by the blue light.
Our current concept of reality raises questions. What are the limits of what is organic and what is synthetic? Can computers be the source (or, at the limit, mediators) of phenomenological experiences? Or are they empty vessels, embedded in flatness, as stated by Byung-Chul Han?
