Mental self-awareness, in particular, is the principal argument through which Cardano advocates the immortality of the soul, for a human being is the same thing as his mind (homo animus est) (De utilitate, OO, II, 12; on Cardano's notion of the mind, see Giglioni 2005 2007; García Valverde 2013).
Then he announces his bald thesis: that "once technology enables us to re-engineer human minds, Homo sapiens will disappear, human history will come to an end, and a completely new process will begin, which people like you and me cannot comprehend".
"Darwin's dangerous idea," Dennett writes, is that Bach's music, Christianity, human culture, the human mind, and Homo sapiens "all exist as fruits of a single tree, the Tree of Life," which "created itself, not in a miraculous, instantaneous whoosh, but slowly, slowly".
He says, "Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them.
Unfortunately, our male rappers and singers can't speak as freely about their admiration for male role models without a mind-numbing "no homo" afterword.
Yet these areas have been inhabited since the dawn of Homo sapiens, never mind the emergence of the various hairy, upright beasts from which we descended.
Look around a human-wrought landscape like Manhattan, and the term Homo manipulens might spring to mind.
The subsystems of his mind had been evolving for even longer; creating Homo sapiens, Dennett writes, required "billions of years of irreplaceable design work" — performed not by God, of course, but by natural selection.
This may lead to differences in behavior of the SV detection tools that were solely designed with Homo sapiens or animal data in mind.
A disembodied mind, the body is peripheral a source of desires for homo economicus to weigh and a distracting temptation for the Kantian ethical subject.
The impetus of City of Nowhere therefore calls to mind the sci-fi literarture of Victor Pelevin, whose novels Homo Zapiens and Hall of Singing Caryatids might be most representative of the Russian psyche as past met future in hyper-capitalization. .
