Cybernetics as the science that studies the general laws of control and communication in machines and living societies. In Wiener's view, information is the basis of control. All information transmission is for control, and any control depends on information feedback achieved. Wiener's theory integrates Wiener's theory integrates information theory and cybernetics, which becomes an important basis for Heller's "posthuman" theory.

"I understand the human and posthuman as historically specific structures that emerge from the different external forms of various technologies and cultures. My reference point for the definition of the human is the liberal humanist tradition; the posthuman emerges when computation replaces possessive individualism as the basis for being/human being. This change further facilitates a seamless connection between the posthuman and the intelligent machine The posthuman is further enabled to connect seamlessly with intelligent machines."

In a sense, artificial intelligence has laid the necessary technological foundation for the emergence of the posthuman concept of communication. But there is a broader sense in which the posthuman and the intelligent machine are united, a high degree of "unity" that blurs even the distinction between the organic intelligence of biology and the biological information machine.

The "separation of information (mind) from matter (body)" is possible. On the basis of Shannon's theory of information, the traditional human-machine relationship, which is mainly humanistic, is overturned. The "mind" as a kind of information can be separated from the human body, and even the human being itself is "understood as a set of information programs".

Cybernetic And VR

In a cybernetic perspective, it is the "behavioral interaction" that allows the "proprioception" of the physical body to enter the human-computer feedback system This allows the user to access information in the virtual reality environment more efficiently and naturally through biofeedback, enabling the user to feel "virtual body ownership" in the mediated environment. This allows the user to feel "virtual body ownership" in the mediated environment, and thus the "technological body" is born. The emergence of the technological body The emergence of the technological body allows the communication subject in mediated communication to be reduced to a "body-subject", and allows the "body-subject" communication in virtual reality to be different from that in physical reality. The "body-subject" communication in virtual reality is similar to the "face-to-face" communication in physical reality in terms of "form". Based on this, the user can obtain a stronger sense of "social presence" and "companionship" when interacting with technical bodies than with interface media. "The sense of companionship.

Cybernetic and political and society

The world should be a whole, not an "interdependent system of dominant and enslaved races"

The real problem brought by cybernetics is the battle of the few against the many through data, and behind the confrontation between people and data and machines, there is always an unequal relationship between people. The humanistic inquiry of information communication will eventually reach these seemingly "outdated" propositions again.

Cybernetic and feminism

Donna Haraway, 1985, A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology , and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century：


In the late twentieth century, communication science and modern biology reinvented the human body. By blurring the boundaries between machine and organism, these technologies shaped each person into a cyborg, which became the ontology of humanity. She argues that the distinction between machine and organism in the world of cyborgs, to and similar distinctions that construct the idea of "self" in the Western sense dissolve. This gives feminists a great wealth-people's feelings about gender, race, and class are imposed by the historical experience of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. imposed on people; the new identity of humans as cyborgs, on the other hand
can bring about fundamental changes in these foundational categorization patterns, and in so doing, bring about the shaping of new solidarities. and, in so doing, bring about the possibility of shaping new solidarities.

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