Serial Number: http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A106337617

Title:  A Study on the Human Body in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Cyborg, Transhuman, Posthuman and Neuromancer

Author: Park, So-Young

Journal: Culture and Convergence (Culture and Convergence)

Vol: 41/4

Pages: 1157-1190

Published by: The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence

Date: 2019.

Register Information: KCI

<Abstract>

The development of technology, especially the development of artificial intelligence technology, has stimulated the introduction of new medical practices. The development of artificial intelligence in medical care has brought about new changes and conceptions of the human body. The changes in the human body have appeared as efforts to overcome the limitations of the human body with the development of technology. Human beings who could not replace or prolong the life of the body for a long time have tried to overcome their limitations through tools and machines. We always have had a desire for eternal life and immortality, but it have been a hard desire to accomplish. This desire now begins to be realized by the combination of the biological body and the machine that replaces the human body. These new human bodies are roughly divided into three types. The first is the cyborg body in the form of a combination of organisms and machines. The second form is the transhuman body, which will be made possible by developing and expanding technology to eliminate aging and improve human intellectual, physical, and psychological abilities. The third one is the posthuman body, which can no longer be called human because it has been so completely changed that it can no longer represent the human species. This paper discusses the three possible types of future human bodies, and examines how these bodies are envisioned in William Gibson’s SF Neuromancer.